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Unstoppable

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  • Title: Unstoppable
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Unstoppable is your typical by-the-numbers sports biopic underdog story that succeeds in what it sets out to do. Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, a one-legged student athlete who through the first-hour of the movie struggles to make his dream of wrestling for a major college program a reality. If this wasn’t a true story, Disney would likely have made something quite like it (albeit perhaps with less of the family drama).

The film is filled with struggles for Anthony to overcome including an abusive step-father (Bobby Cannavale), money troubles, not being recruited by the big schools, and finally making the team as a walk-on only to see the wrestling program cut because of lack of funding. Strap in, because it’s going to be a Sisyphean struggle for this kid to live his dream.

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Interior Chinatown – Translator

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Translator
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While the episode’s title refers to the latest role Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) takes on after his uncle is arrested allowing for some insight into his uncle, the larger theme of the episode is the continued ripples Willis’ actions have had on the world. Lana (Chloe Bennet) uses the tropes of the weekly murder investigation to solve a case in record time allowing for her to grab backup to save Willis from his uncle who it turns out wasn’t out to hurt him at all, despite the glitching of the world we see making him appear more dangerous to the detectives. Turner (Sullivan Jones), still despondent over recent events, is reinvigorated by Lana’s actions and the pleas of Willis at the end of the episode cementing another shift and putting the case of Willis’ brother to the forefront.

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We Live in Time

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  • Title: We Live in Time
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We Live in Time is a bit of a throwback, a solid film that shows the formula of throwing together two extremely likable stars and giving them a stage to perform is still a formula for success. For our pairing we get Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh as Tobias and Almut. The film jumps around in non-linear fashion to delve into the pair’s relationship from their cinematic meet-cute (where she literally runs into him with his car) through the ups and downs of their relationship over the years.

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Transformers #16

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In a chaotic issue focused on the Autobots finding themselves in the middle of a battle between two warring groups of Decepticons (without an appearance by Shockwave, sadly), the most interesting moment is saved for the end confirming Megatron‘s survival and foreshadowing his return. This isn’t likely great news for the Autobots who have only kept pace with the Decepticons thanks to their questionable leadership so far. The return of Megatron, who probably isn’t going to be happy to learn Optimus Prime is walking around with his cannon arm, could definitely shake things up. 

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Batman: Dark Patterns #2

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As Batman: Dark Patterns my interest is leaning more to the art than the story. The second issue of the twelve-issue maxi-series offers the return and capture of the self-mutilated killer we saw in Batman: Dark Patterns #1 who Batman successfully captures. However, due to the incompetence of the coroner who Batman warned Gordon about in the first issue the character (who really only had a single-issue shelf-life for me) may be sticking around even longer.

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