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Daredevil – Requiem

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Requiem
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As civil unrest boils over, a resistance takes to the street to protest Mayor Wilson Fisk‘s (Vincent D’Onofrio) policies, and Fisk mourns the death of his wife, Daredevil: Born Again finally gets around to bringing back Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) who survives an attack in her home from CIA black-ops and helps Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) make an explosive statement by hitting the smuggled weapons cache from the Northern Star. “Requiem” also brings the Kingpin and Daredevil face-to-face as Matt attempts to reason with the Mayor only for the two to come to blows ending an a stalemate with Fisk unable to kill Daredevil and Matt, haunted by memories of Foggy‘s (Elden Henson) forgiving nature, unwilling to kill the cancer at the center of the city.

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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

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  • Title: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
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The bizarrely-named Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, suggesting the film is part of franchise that doesn’t exist, is a slight deviation from the usual Jason Statham-versus-the-world stories. In what appears to be a half-assed Mission: Impossible knockoff, Statham stars as the Ethan Hunt of the film charged with getting back a stolen weapon about to be sold on the black market. His team includes Aubrey Plaza, doing double duty as the female field agent and tech support, and Bugzy Malone in a role best described as “the other guy.”

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A Working Man

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  • Title: A Working Man
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A fairly basic Jason Statham action flick, A Working Man stars Statham as a retired black ops commando living a simple life as a construction foreman who needs to dig into his old skill-set when the daughter (Arianna Rivas) of his friend (Michael Peña) is taken from a night club. While fighting his way through a cavalcade of indistinguishable bikers, drug dealers, and the Russian mobsters, eventually he’ll work himself back to the girl.

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Daredevil – Shoot the Moon

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Shoot the Moon
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Marginally advancing the season’s plot, “Shoot the Moon” feels mostly like a filler episode where we get to spend time with various characters and get to see a couple of sequences highlighting our hero’s new costume while also showing us that Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) has learned a few things from her boyfriend. The Northern Star is still pivotal to the plans of both heroes and villains, but no real movement is made. Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) is confirmed to be the man who saved Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) but the reasons for his actions, and later attack on the anti-vigilante squad, aren’t explored.

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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

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  • Title: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
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Writer/director BenDavid Grabinski‘s Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a crime comedy with a sci-fi twist. On the night of Sosa’s (Keith David) son Jimmy Boy (Jimmy Tatro) being released from prison, Quick Draw Mike (James Marsden) learns that he’s been set up as the snitch responsible for Jimmy Boy’s prison stint and now is marked for death. The person who framed him is Mike’s longtime partner in crime Nick (Vince Vaughn) whose wife Alice (Eiza González) Mike has been sleeping with. However, there is some good news as someone has arrived to help save Mike. The problem? It’s also Nick.

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