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Minions: The Rise of Gru

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  • Title: Minions: The Rise of Gru
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The first movie of the Despicable Me franchise since 2015’s fun if forgettable Minions, the series continues with Minions: The Rise of Gru as 11 year-old Gru (Steve Carell) attempts to prove himself as a super-villain to his idols the Vicious 6 (voiced by Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, and Lucy Lawless). More entertaining than Minions, but still packing plenty of wacky problems for both Gru and the small yellow henchmen to get into, Minions: The Rise of Gru is a pleasant surprise that made me laugh and kept me entertained throughout.

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Overdrive

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  • Title: Overdrive
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An obvious attempt to take advantage of the popularity of the Fast & Furious franchise, 2017’s Overdrive offers a tale of car thieves in over their head. Aside from the short opening heist, which provides a look at the skills of brothers Andrew (Scott Eastwood) and Garrett (Freddie Thorp), the film races in fits and starts continuing pushing off the promised big heist with various subplots that are constantly mucking up the story. While we eventually get the heist we’re promised, by the time it happens does anyone still care?

Stealing from the wrong man (Simon Abkarian), Andrew and Garrett are forced to put together a crew to steal from an even more dangerous man (Clemens Schick). Rather than just move forward with that plot we get the pair making deals with the second target, facing retribution from old enemies, dealing with romantic entanglements, being investigated by Interpol, and on and on.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train Job
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Leverage targets a green energy CEO (Jon Fletcher) on the verge of selling a battery powerful enough to power a small electric airplane. The problem is, the battery doesn’t work. And to keep the secret, the con man has buried the evidence on farmland that has seeped into his neighbor’s property, destroying their crops. As an attempt to scare the off, and prevent the couple from doing soil tests which might reveal the truth, the CEO calls on a local hate group to forcibly remove them.

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The Endgame – Pilot

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  • Title: The Endgame – Pilot
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Feeling like it was inspired more than a little by The Blacklist, the first episode of NBC’s The Endgame introduces us to a super-criminal (Morena Baccarin) in control of a vast global network who allows herself to be captured the the United States Government to further her own plans and put herself in the path of a single agent (Ryan Michelle Bathe). While the heads of the various agencies are at first smug at the prize they’ve snared, they soon realize who is in a trap when Elena Federova (Baccarin) masterminds a number of bank heists across the city while still under FBI lock up.

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Alex Rider – Heist

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Heist
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After travelling to Amsterdam, Alex (Otto Farrant), Kyra (Marli Siu), and Tom (Brenock O’Connor) work on a plan to how to sneak Alex and Kyra into Damian Cray‘s (Toby Stephens) company to download the full code of The Feathered Serpent video game in hopes of learning what it is for. The episode works well with the pair smuggling themselves into the company through a delivery truck and then working their way to the upper offices. They also come across a shipment of gas masks and hazmat suits foreshadowing the evil that Cray has planned. 

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