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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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  • Title: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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The latest from the Wallace & Gromit franchise involves Wallace‘s (Ben Whitehead) inventions of garden gnome robots, which Gromit is suspicious of immediately, being turned against him by Feathers McGraw who eventually uses the group to break out of the Zoo where he’s been kept a prisoner since the events of The Wrong Trousers. After the gnomes are turned evil (because for some reason Wallace created them to able to be evil?) the group also ruin the inventor’s name turning both the locals and police against him.

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The Question: All Along the Watchtower #2

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Renee Montoya continues her new job as the sheriff of the Watchtower which turns into even more of a hairball on day two. First, someone lets loose one of the deadlier animals from the Watchtower’s Menagerie. Second someone appearing to be Batwoman, takes the beast to the Question’s quarters to loose it onto one of the Challengers of the Unknown who it almost mauls to death. Oh, and when that fails, the Eradicator shows up with a stolen power ring for a second murder attempt. 

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Emilia Pérez

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  • Title: Emilia Pérez
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Not all of Emilia Pérez works. The film is a home run hitter swinging for the fences at every at bat. Sometimes it knocks a scene out of the park. Sometimes it strikes out on three pitches, all well outside of the strike zone. It’s a musical featuring mostly conversational songs which occasionally are unexpectedly bolstered by a full choir. It’s a story about transition and change but is highlighted by characters falling back into bad habits which question how much people actually change. And it’s a tale of characters struggling with real emotional turmoil in a plot that is more interested in melodrama.

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Sonic 3

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  • Title: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
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Adding a bit of pathos and depth to the franchise with the addition of Shadow (Keanu Reeves), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is easily the best film of the franchise. A large chunk of the film is dedicated to revealing the tortured origins and motives of the games’ famous antihero consumed with vengeance following his escape from the G.U.N. prison facility where he’s been kept in suspended animation for the last 50 years. Reeves turns out to be a great choice to voice the character whose less murdery side is shown in a series of flashbacks highlighting his friendship with Maria Robotnik (Alyla Browne) which ended in tragedy prior to his incarceration.

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The Irrational – Stan by Me

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  • Title: The Irrational – Stan by Me
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Although it provides almost nothing for the assistants to do, other than to laugh at Owen’s (Arash DeMaxi) fandom, I enjoyed the main story of “Stan by Me” featuring Alec (Jesse L. Martin) and Rose (Karen David) working together to solve the murder of a fan one of her former clients, a renown K-pop star (Kirstin Leigh) who becomes the prime suspect. Sadly, I was far less interested in the B-story involving Marisa (Maahra Hill) and her struggle getting along with her new boss at the FBI which, in procedural fashion, fixes itself by the end of the episode and thus turns out to be mostly pointless.

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