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September 5

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  • Title: September 5
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At only 94 minutes, September 5 is a surprisingly short and concise look back at the events of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics through the lens of the ABC Sports team who were on the ground and on the air when the incident occurred putting them at the forefront of the coverage. Director Tim Fehlbaum‘s film stays with our newsmen covering their actions and perspectives as events unfold in real time, fighting to stay on the air and keep the coverage, and not providing the audience any information not uncovered by the team.

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A Real Pain

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  • Title: A Real Pain
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Most notable for Kieran Culkin‘s performance, A Real Pain stars Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed) in and odd couple pairing as cousins visiting Poland after their grandmother’s death hoping to reconnect with their Jewish heritage and feel closer to her one last time. Starting out with a Holocaust tour group the pair find themselves shown around Poland landmarks ranging from restaurants to a concentration camp with an eclectic group who include Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes, and Kurt Egyiawan, before moving off on their own to find their grandmother’s home.

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The Substance

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  • Title: The Substance
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Part body horror and part treatise on societal pressures of women over the age of 40, The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading Hollywood celebrity now host of a morning exercise hour about to be replaced by the lecherous producer (Dennis Quaid). Learning of an experimental procedure where she might recapture her youth, Elisabeth (Moore) takes “the Substance” and emerges from the husk of her body as the distinctly different Sue (Margaret Qualley) whose beauty quickly reopens all the doors closed to her older self. However, in order for this miracle to work, Sue and Elisabeth share consciousness, each a week at a time when the other is unconscious with any negative or selfish action by one potentially hurting the other.

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Godzilla Minus One

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  • Title: Godzilla Minus One
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Going back to basics, 2023’s Godzilla Minus One returns the story of Godzilla to post World War II Japan with themes of post-war trauma, regret, and anti-war and anti- nuclear messages so prevalent in the original film. Our protagonist is Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who encounters Godzilla at the end of WWII while flying as a kamikaze pilot who refused to crash his plane. Two years later, after cobbling together a family of other survivors, and working to remove leftover naval mines, Shikishima encounters Godzilla again. Centered around Shikishima’s guilt and cowardice, the return of Godzilla allows for a chance at redemption by becoming the suicide bomber he failed to be during the war.

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Will Trent – Sunny-Side Up

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  • Title: Will Trent – Sunny-Side Up
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“Sunny-Side Up” wraps up the two-part season opener getting Will (Ramón Rodríguez) reestablished at the GBI after recovering the kidnapped daughter Sunny (Kyrie Mcalpin) of Rafael Wexford (Antwayn Hopper) and clearing his old frenemy of any charges. The move of Amanda (Sonja Sohn) taking in Sunny and Will’s final confrontation with Wexford suggests these two will be sticking around for much of the season. We also see Will getting back into the good graces of Faith (Iantha Richardson) and the (somewhat unbelievable) story of Angie (Erika Christensen) potentially returning to the department continues as well. And it appears both Will and Angie will be getting new friends with the potential for more in the return of Gina Rodriguez and the introduction of Dan Gill.

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