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Star Trek: Discovery – Unification III

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Star Trek: Discovery - Unification III television review

With Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) in search of answers about the Burn, “Unification III” picks up the thread from Star Trek: The Next Generation of a unified Vulcan and Romulan. Discovery travels on a diplomatic mission to Ni’Var where hopes of her connection to Spock may grease the wheels to having the former Federation members release valuable scientific data. When their hosts aren’t obliged to share, Michael invokes the T’Kal-in-ket and must prove her case in front of a panel, although she is unprepared for who their hosts send to be her advocate – Gabrielle Burnham (Sonja Sohn).

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The Truth

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  • Title: La vérité (The Truth)
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The Truth movie reviewMothers and daughters. La vérité, or The Truth, is your basic wacky family tale involving Lumir (Juliette Binoche), her English-speaking husband (Ethan Hawke), and their daughter (Manon Clavel) visiting her famous mother (Catherine Deneuve) who has just released an autobiography and is now working on an avant-garde sci-fi film (which coincidentally also deals with the relationship between a mother and daughter).

The cast elevates what is otherwise a rather straightforward film from Hirokazu Koreeda about the little moments between family members, the struggles of an actor, familial disapproval, the burdens of living with a self-absorbed celebrity, and the scars of memory. Deneuve is obviously enjoying herself as the over-the-top Fabienne Dangeville and the supporting cast forced to put up with her is solid. So too is the unexpected relationship with her co-star Clémentine Grenier which, along with the publication of a book that plays fast and loose with the truth, forces both confrontation and reconciliation between mother and daughter.

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The Flight Attendant – In Case of Emergency

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  • Title: The Flight Attendant – In Case of Emergency
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The Flight Attendant - In Case of Emergency television review

The opening episode of The Flight Attendant introduces us to stewardess Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) who works and plays hard. After a fun night out in Thailand, Cassie wakes up next to a dead body of a passenger (Michiel Huisman) from their flight to Bangkok and spends the rest of the episode frantic while attempting to cover her tracks and jumping another flight back to the United States before the body can be discovered. Only able to remember fragments of the night, Cassie’s freak-out isn’t helped by the arrival of the FBI to talk with all members of the flight crew.

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Big Sky – Pilot

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David E. Kelley‘s latest ensemble is adapted from the novel The Highway by C.J. Box. The “Pilot” episode of Big Sky introduces us to our core characters. We’ve got hot-tempered former cop Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), her separated husband Cody (Ryan Phillippe) and his partner at their private detective firm Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury). Much of the drama in the first episode concerns Jenny confronting Cassie about sleeping with her husband. On the road, we’re also introduced to state trooper Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch), trucker Ronald Pergman (Brian Geraghty), and a pair of teenage girls (Natalie Alyn Lind and Jade Pettyjohn) traveling from Colorado into Montana.

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Soul

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  • Title: Soul
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Soul movie reviewPixar tackles the meaning of life in Soul. Jamie Foxx stars as Joe, a lifelong struggling musician who dies on the very day he earns his big break. Refusing to walk into the Great Beyond, Joe finds himself trapped in the Great Before where young souls are prepared prior to their journey to Earth. Joe’s fate will depend on helping a troubled soul (Tina Fey) find her one true thing.

Soul marks both Pixar’s first African American lead character and its director in Pete Docter (who also worked on much of the film’s development and screenplay). It’s a fun film, which will remind you of a number of body-switching comedies once Joe and 22 (Fey) make it back to Earth (many of those developed by Disney). The film also confirms that beaurcracy doesn’t end at death and Joe finds an entire new world to explore (and escape) if he wants to get home and claim his big break (while also teaching 22 about life).

Despite dealing with life and death, Soul lacks the emotional weight of previous Pixar films such as Up or Toy Story 3 due to how goofy much of the film becomes after Joe’s death.

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