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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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James Bond: Himeros #2

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Bond spends some time getting to know Wilhelm’s former assistant Sarah Richmond while mercenaries hit the human trafficker’s island only to discover his defenses are more than enough to keep out any uninvited guests. The question is, who is controlling the island now with Wilhelm dead? And is Sarah truly a victim in all of this, or something much more sinister?

There’s quite a bit of action here, starting with the failed island assault and ending with the assassin Kino catching up to Bond and Sarah and making an attempt on her life. In the encounter, the pair appear evenly matched raising Kino’s suspicions and just who is now protecting Sarah. Bond is now on the run with a woman he’s unsure if he can trust and with an assassin on his heels, where does he go from here?

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Marvel Action Classics: Spider-Man Two-In-One #4

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Reprinting two previous Spider-Man tales, the first story of Marvel Action Classics: Spider-Man Two-In-One #4 gives us the constantly broke Peter Parker breaking into the Baxter Building with hopes of impressing the Fantastic Four and asking for a job as a way to monetize Spider-Man.

The story features plenty of classic FF foolishness including Johnny Storm pranking the Thing. Meanwhile the Chameleon steals an invention framing Spider-Man for the crime. Although Spidey didn’t get the job offer he wanted, it turns out having the FF as your alibi, and back-up, works pretty well.

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