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Doctor Who – Lucky Day

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  • Title: Doctor Who – Lucky Day
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One of the concepts Doctor Who has explored over the years, with select companions, is what happens to those people after they leave and attempt to go back to a normal life. With The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) still stuck unable to reach the present, “Lucky Day” instead gives us a Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) episode that isn’t what it initially appears. The first-half of the episode deals with Ruby attempting to move on from her time-traveling adventures and beginning a hopeful relationship with Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King) who it turns out also had a short encounter with The Doctor as a child and is not what it seems.

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Sinners Sins So Well

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  • Title: Sinners
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Featuring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as dangerous twins who return home to the Mississippi Delta with ill-gotten gains to set up their own juke joint, writer/director Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners is one part period drama which examine the lives of the tightknit community and one part supernatural thriller as something evil is drawn in by the music of the twins’ cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) all taking place during a single day and night.

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Heat

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  • Title: Heat
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In honor of the passing of Val Kilmer, this Flashback Friday takes us back to 1995’s tour-de-force crime drama Heat. Unquestionably Michael Mann‘s best film, Heat splits its focus between a crew of armed robbers led by Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and the cops out to stop them led by LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). No film has played both sides so well, although if I have a complaint it’s that a more ambiguous ending that faded to black on the gunshot in the weeds on the edge of Los Angeles International Airport allowing the audience to determine the winner of the pair’s struggle would seem to be more fitting.

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Black Bag

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  • Title: Black Bag
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An evening with the Woodhouses would certainly be a memorable experience. More John le Carré than James Bond, Black Bag is a slow burn spy thriller that starts by introducing us to George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) who learns one of five intelligence officers is responsible for the leak of top-secret software called Severus. The suspects include Freddie (Tom Burke) and his girlfriend Clarissa (Marisa Abela), psychologist Zoe Vaughan (Naomie Harris) and her current fling James Stokes (Regé-Jean Page), and George’s wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett).

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The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews to search for a dead man’s missing fortune. Hired by the legal heirs of the town eccentric who changed his will shortly before his death leaving his hidden treasure for whoever could find it, the boys start with the clues left by the dead man on a race against other treasure hunters, Skinny Norris, and other members of the man’s family all willing to take drastic action to beat the Three Investigators to the prize.

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