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The Thursday Murder Club

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  • Title: The Thursday Murder Club
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Adapted from the novel of the same name, The Thursday Murder Club is more notable for its setting (an outrageously opulent retirement home) and for its cast than its mystery. Through newcomer Joyce (Celia Imrie) we’re introduced to Cooper Chase and a group of retirees who spend their time solving old cold cases. Calling themselves the Thursday Murder Club, Joyce is invited to join Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), and Ibraim (Ben Kingsley) first offering her medical expertise on the group’s latest unsolved case and later the current death of the property manager which, thanks to coincidence of the most outlandish degree, will be linked together before all is said and done. 

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The Rundown

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  • Title: The Rundown
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Following his appearance in The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, in 2003 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson began a series of middling to fair action flicks (most of which are easily forgettable, although The Rundown is one of the better ones). The Rock stars as Beck, a retrieval specialist working off his debt to Billy Walker (William Lucking) who offers to cancel Beck’s debt if he retrieves Walker’s loudmouth son Travis (Seann William Scott in the kind of role Ryan Reynolds would corner the market on by the end of the decade) from the Amazon where he’s searching for treasure.

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The Sandman – Brief Lives

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  • Title: The Sandman – Brief Lives
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With no real intention of success, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) agrees to help his sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) in her search to find their missing brother believing there’s a chance he might run across Nada (Umulisa Gahiga) on their travels. However, all he does is further infuriate his siblings. The old friends of the missing Destruction (Barry Sloane) turn up dead, infuriating Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Delirium learns the truth of Dream’s manipulation abandoning her siblings and locking herself up in her realm. While Creed-Miles’ Delirium is fun to behold, and there’s certainly more to Destruction that we’ve yet to see, Morpheus’ continued obsession with Nada isn’t what I was hoping for given the limited number of stories left to tell and how much more of his world there is yet to explore.

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Ne Zha 2

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  • Title: Ne Zha 2
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The sequel to the Chinese animated film Ne Zha (which was based, partly on Chinese mythology), Ne Zha 2 continues the story of Ne Zha and Ao Bing who are forced to share Ne Zha’s body (leading to All of Me style comedic bits throughout the film). To help put things right, and to save Chentang Pass from invasion, Ne Zha agrees to undertake three quests to become an immortal which would allow him to restore the Sacred Lotus and create a new body for Ao Bing. However, as Ne Zha soon learns, being an immortal isn’t all its cracked up to be.

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Honey Don’t!

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  • Title: Honey Don’t!
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Ethan Coen‘s Honey Don’t! is an odd film, for a variety of reasons. Centered around a private detective who talks like a 50s dick while working out of a 70s office, while driving a vintage comfortable and discussing COVID and cellphones, Margaret Qualley stars as Honey O’Donahue who never actually investigates a single case on-screen that she was hired for throughout the entire film. That doesn’t stop her from being a delight, though. By far the best thing about the film, Qualley’s throwback pulpish detective provides a fun flick that sadly disappoints in a myriad of other ways.

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