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The Flash – Armageddon, Part 3

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  • Title: The Flash – Armageddon, Part 3
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While Flash (Grant Gustin) attempts to avoid the future by having guest-star Black Lightning (Cress Williams) remove his speed powers, the rest of Team Flash fractures as Iris (Candice Patton) begins following the assumption that her husband is right and someone has been messing with them since the beginning. Believing in himself once more, and retreating to the future for answers to avoid Despero’s (Tony Curran) latest attack, the Flash comes face-to-face with an altered timeline and the man responsible.

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Benedetta

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  • Title: Benedetta
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Inspired by the life of 17th Century nun Benedetta Carlini, Virginie Efira stars in the title role as a nun with visions and dreams of Jesus (Jonathan Couzinié). After the arrival of a young woman named Bartolomea (Daphne Patakia), to whom she has an obvious attraction, Benedetta begins having fevered dreams and one day appears with stigmata allowing for her advancement over the current abbess (Charlotte Rampling). This immediately causes turmoil within the covenant which is only furthered by charges against both Benedetta and Bartolomea for the carnal nature of their relationship.

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Cleopatra in Space – Mentor

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  • Title: Cleopatra in Space – Mentor
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In order to graduate to Level 2, Cleopatra (Lilimar), Akila (Katie Crown), and Brian (Jorge Diaz) are each given a younger student with a similar disposition to mentor. Akila and Brian hit it off with their matches quickly, but Cleo struggles with reaching the impulsive and annoying Philo (Gunnar Sizemore) who nearly get the pair killed on a mission on the Moon of Naqada (that they weren’t even assigned). The episode serves to help Cleo understand Khensu‘s (Sendhil Ramamurthy) exasperation with her behavior, which, of course, was the point of the exercise all along. Oh, and Cleo gets to fight a robotic dinosaur, which even Philo has to admit was pretty cool.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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  • Title: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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It’s impossible to make a Ghostbusters film funny as the original; even the original cast and crew could only muster up Ghostbusters II. Realizing this, Ghosbusters: Afterlife takes an unexpected approach of not offering a comedy but rather instead a family drama wrapped in the trappings of the Ghostbusters franchise. The choice is likely to surprise and anger some fans. Sure, there’s humor (much of it from Paul Rudd as the wacky summer school teacher), but the driving momentum behind the story isn’t for big laughs but for the family, and their new friends, coming together to save the town, and the world, from ghosts.

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King Richard

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  • Title: King Richard
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King Richard offers a different type of sports biopic with the focus not on the athlete, coach, or team, but on the father of a pair of promising young tennis players. The fairly conventional film showcases the unconventional path to tennis stardom Richard Williams (Will Smith) led his daughters Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) to while pissing off pretty much everyone in the tennis world.

Because of how early the film is set, ending on Venus’ professional debut (which doesn’t paint a flattering picture of her opponent Arantxa Sánchez Vicario played by Marcela Zacarias), and how little the Williams sisters played in junior tennis, the younger Serena draws the short straw here and we don’t get as much tennis as you may expect. What King Richard does offers is a character study of the often rigid Richard Williams and the environment that raised two tennis stars who would change the sport.

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