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Kenny Omega vs. MJF (and other AEW Dynamite Beach Break 2026 Highlights)

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2026’s Beach Break on AEW Dynamite saw Kenny Omega defeat MFJ for the AEW World Championship, a returning Willow Nightingale winning the Women’s Casino Gauntlet Match, Kyle Fletcher winning the AEW International Title from Konosuke Takeshita,  Ciampa defeating Jericho, and Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley defeating The WorkHorsemen.

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Contempt

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  • Title: Le Mépris
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With Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget of adaptation looming, we take a quite different look at a film exploring Homer‘s classic tale. Written and directed by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, 1963’s Contempt centers on playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), whose marriage falls apart after he agrees to help rework the script for American producer Jerry Prokosch (Jack Palance) and German director Fritz Lang‘s (playing an exaggerated version of himself) production of Homer’s The Odyssey.

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Lust, Caution

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  • Title: Lust, Caution
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One of my favorites from the extremely strong slate of films released in 2007, director Ang Lee‘s Lust, Caution earned praise winning Lee his second Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival but also backlash for the film’s explicit sex scenes causing it to be released in America under a NC-17 rating. Loosely inspired by an attempt to kill a Japanese collaborator during WWII, Tang Wei stars as the most naive member of a group of radicalized college students who plan to kill a collaborator (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) set in power by the Japanese occupation in China.

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Maul – Strange Allies / The Dark Lord

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  • Title: Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord – Chapter 9: Strange Allies / Chapter 10: The Dark Lord
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The First Season of Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord closes out with a pair of episodes that pay off on the promise of the series with a series of lightsaber battles and shoot-outs against the Empire. Most of the show’s core cast won’t make it through the end of the season, although the choices on who falls will set up the major storylines for Season Two.

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