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Daredevil #9

Daredevil #9 works as an aftermath issues set between the Fist’s battle against the Hand and their upcoming fight against the Avengers (who believe Elektra is responsible for murdering the President). After their battle against the Hand, Matt Murdock and his followers limp back home to their secret base to lick their wounds. It’s hardly a calm time as there are those who decide to abandon Daredevil’s quest, and sad revelations for both Elektra and Matt that two of their inner circle aren’t who they believe them to be, just as a new threat lands on their doorstep.

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The Adequate Mario Bros. Movie

  • Title: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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The 8-bit plumber who launched a franchise gets his own big budget animated movie in Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. You can tell Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, the team that gave us the more successful Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, have genuine affection for the Super Mario franchise and the script finds some clever ways to work various gameplay elements into the story. It’s the story, however, that falls a bit short. Even at only 92 minutes, the film runs out of gas, noticeably dragging in spots. You could easily trim 20 minutes off its runtime.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99

  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99
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After spending an inordinate amount of time in the safe embrace of Pabu, the two episode arc that ends Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Second Season has the squad seek for answers about the missing clones. The mission’s disastrous end is tipped off almost immediately in an awkward conversation at the start of “The Summit” between Phee Genoa (Wanda Sykes) and Tech (Dee Bradley Baker) which is only shoehorned in here because Tech won’t be returning. Sorry, Tech. But, hey, turns out Omega (Michelle Ang) has a sister (but not the blue one).

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George and the Dragon

  • Title: George and the Dragon
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Flashback Friday takes us back to 2004’s George and the Dragon (quite loosely based on the medieval legend) starring James Purefoy as a crusading knight on his way home who gets caught up on the search for a missing princess (Piper Perabo) who it turns out wasn’t so much kidnapped by a dragon but saved from a marriage to a local lord (Patrick Swayze) her father had chosen for her. Refusing to abandon the dragon’s egg, Princess Lunna gets George into all kinds of trouble and hijinks in this likeable family-friendly film.

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Dragon Pink

  • Title: Dragon Pink
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Inspired by fantasy role-playing games, with a definite early 90s computer game feel in the introductions to each story, and adapted from the manga of the same name, Dragon Pink offers three separate tales centered around a band of adventures in the not-so-heroic Santa (Chris Bowen), his catgirl slave Pink (Katsuyo Endou), the barbarian Bobo (Anthony Lawson), and the elf mage Pierce (Whitney Thompson).

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