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Killing Faith

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  • Title: Killing Faith
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Set in the equally bleak surroundings of mid-19th Century Arizona, Killing Faith follows the unlikely group of a freed slave (DeWanda Wise), her passing daughter (Emily Katherine Ford), a drug-abusing doctor (Guy Pearce), and a half-wit (Jack Alcott) on a five day journey from the town they are no longer accepted to a neighboring one which they hope will lead to salvation.

At the center of the film, although without any lines of her own, is the young girl who is a carrier of the plague ravaging the area. Some, including her mother, believe the child has been infected by the Devil leading to the supernatural overtones of the movie (which are more subtle than you would expect, accepting only by the poorly educated and fearful of the Western territory) and the religious conversations between the mother and the doctor (haunted by the loss of his own daughter to the same disease).

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MacGyver – Thief of Budapest

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  • Title: MacGyver – Thief of Budapest
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) finds himself working with a young gypsy pickpocket (Kelly McClain) who chose the wrong person to steal from putting her family in danger leading to MacGyver working to free her brother Bruno from prison, and later track down the fence (Sue Kiel) he sold the pocket watch to (unaware of the hidden information inside). However, after finally retrieving the watch, MacGyver finds himself pulled in to getting Jana and all of her family out of Budapest.

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

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  • Title: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
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Set in a world not unlike our own, albeit one with a bit more magic underneath, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star as two single New Yorkers who meet at a wedding of mutual friends. While that may sound like a pretty typical setup, the road to the wedding (and the road home) are anything but normal. David and Sarah each make use of an odd car rental agency using old cars and yet highly advanced GPS (voiced by Jodie Turner-Smith) which knows where each of them need to go. After both agree to go on a big bold beautiful journey, the pair are reunited and begin a series of adventures that will take them into each other’s pasts reliving key moments of their lives.

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The Long Walk

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  • Title: The Long Walk
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Set in dystopian present where the United States Government has been replaced by a totalitarian regime (something which seems scarily prescient given our current circumstance), The Long Walk follows a group of “volunteers” on a grueling contest to walk continuously over hundreds of miles until only a single winner remains standing (with the quick and brutal murders of any contestants who fall off the pace). Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the film has many of the same themes of King’s The Running Man, or other films such as The Hunger Games and Death Race, making social commentary on a corrupt system and the gamification of life for ordinary people turning survival into entertainment.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza
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As expected, the introduction of Smoothie offered up the opportunity for the baby dinosaur to get lost and for an episode set aside to find him. Bringing the group back together, it also allows for them to find some common ground on their other lost friend (despite her own choices leading to her current predicament). Speaking of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) she continues to find cracks in Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) and her partnerships which could be exploited in future episodes. And, after teasing it, we finally see the Pyroraptor which offers a showdown between in at the raptors.

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