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Minions & Monsters

  • Title: Minions & Monsters
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The seventh movie of the Despicable Me franchise, and the third to focus squarely on the odd yellow henchmen, takes one tribe of Minions (after a brief history lesson) to Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties. All voiced by writer/director Pierre Coffin, the most important Minions of the film are James (the dreamer and storyteller), Henry (James’ best friend), the hearing impaired Ed, and, to a lesser extent, the dickish leader of the group appropriately named Dick.

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The Arrival

  • Title: The Arrival
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Whether or not 1996’s The Arrival works for you or not will likely boil down to whether or not you can accept the premise of Charlie Sheen as a scientist who stumbles into, and becomes lost in, a vast conspiracy of aliens on Earth altering the planet for their own ends. It’s B-movie sci-fi to be sure, but it’s held up fairly well over the years even if the film struggles at times balancing the higher-minded scientific ideas with the rampant paranoia.

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The Mask of Zorro

  • Title: The Mask of Zorro
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Arriving in theaters 17 years after Zorro, the Gay Blade, 1998’s The Mask of Zorro gave us Anthony Hopkins as the classic hero Don Diego de la Vega who we see imprisoned by the corrupt Spanish Governor Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) on Spain’s retreat from its former colony. With his wife (Julieta Rosen) killed, and his daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) stolen to be raised by his mortal enemy, Diego remains imprisoned for 20 years when Montero’s return gives him a chance at vengeance and to instruct a new pupil (Antonio Banderas) in the ways of Zorro.

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Eye for an Eye

  • Title: Mu zhong wu ren
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Mu zhong wu ren, released to Western audiences as Eye for an Eye, Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman, and Defiant, stars Miao Xie as the blind bounty hunter. Learning his name only at the end of the film, Cheng Xiazi’s strict regimen is interrupted when he meets a wine maker (Weiman Gao) who is raped, and her family slaughtered, on her wedding day. Receiving no help from the local police, who are fearful of the attackers powerful criminal ties, our hero champions Ni Yan’s need for vengeance.

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Supergirl

  • Title: Supergirl (2026)
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Milly Alcock returns to reprise her role of Kara Zor-El introduced at the end of Superman. Any conversation of director Craig Gillespie‘s film must start with Alcock whose journey as the lost daughter of Krypton (cursed to remember a planet Kal-El never knew) provides the backbone of the film. Part origin story, part coming-of-age film and growing into who you were meant to become, Supergirl works fairly well when Alcock is on-screen (and less so when she’s not).

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