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Predator: Killer of Killers

  • Title: Predator: Killer of Killers
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In what feels a little like an anthology series spliced together into a single film, Predator: Killer of Killers gives us three separate tales of humans each besting Predator attacks in different locales and time periods before uniting together in a Predator arena to fight it out and prove who the best, the killer of killers you might say, is.

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Ballerina

  • Title: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
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Set in the world of John Wick, Ana de Armas stars as our titular ballerina who becomes part of the Ruska Roma following the death of her father. After a rough opening 20-25 minutes setting up her origin story and early days training, things finally get going with Eve‘s first assignment in a night club before jumping ahead a few months as the seasoned killer gets her first lead and becomes distracted tracking down those responsible for her family’s death. her journey will lead her into conflict with a cult of assassins, the Ruska Roma, and eventually even John Wick (Keanu Reeves).

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MacGyver – The Golden Triangle

  • Title: MacGyver – The Golden Triangle
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson). Things are a bit rough on MacGyver in “The Golden Triangle” as our hero gets knocked out both in the opening gambit, involving attempting to prevent top secret plans from being sold in a junk yard, and later in the main storyline where afterward he’s strung up to die slowly in the jungle sun. In the main story, MacGyver is sent to Burma to recover a poison cannister from a crashed cargo plan whose contents have found themselves  into the control of a local general who makes his money having his minions force villagers to harvest his poppy fields.

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John Woo’s M:I-2

  • Title: Mission: Impossible II
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the first sequel to 1996’s Mission: Impossible. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt on a new mission to stop a spy who has gone bad (Dougray Scott) from getting his hands on a genetically-enhanced bio-weapon and loosing it on the world. Ving Rhames also returns to reprise his role as Luther with the rest of the small team being filled out by the forgettable John Polson and the memorable Thandie Newton as a thief, and former lover of the baddie, who Ethan recruits for the job.

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MacGyver – Pilot

  • Title: MacGyver – Pilot
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to the very first adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson). Much of the pieces to MacGyver are already in place in the show’s “Pilot” episode which starts with an unrelated opening gambit of MacGyver saving a crashed pilot and retrieving the circuit board. We don’t have to wait long to get our first MacGyverism as MacGyver builds a contraption to divide the guards’ attention and uses a flare gun as as a rocket thruster to help secure their escape. The episode includes an appearance by Dana Elcar but as a different character than the one who would be incorporated as a recurring character later in the First Season.

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