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A House of Dynamite

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  • Title: A House of Dynamite
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Opening in theaters for a limited run before hitting Netflix in two weeks, director Kathryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite is an intriguing film exercise of replaying the same 20-30 minutes after a nuclear missile is launched on the United States from enemies unknown. Focusing on a large ensemble of actors, perspective shifts and the timeline resets to show us the same events from other characters’ point of view.

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The Bone Collector

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  • Title: The Bone Collector
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Feeling every bit the 90s movie it is, The Bone Collector throws Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie together in a crime thriller based on Jeffery Deaver’s novel. Washington stars as brilliant, but suicidal, quadriplegic homicide detective Lincoln Rhyme who sees wasted potential in Officer Amelia Donaghy (Jolie) who takes the kind of initiative he, but not her superiors, appreciate in preserving a crime scene. Not initially pleased with her reassignment, Amelia works as Rhyme’s legs in the field helping to track down a serial killer leaving obscure clues and removing bones from his victims.

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The Hunt for Red October

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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The Long Walk

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  • Title: The Long Walk
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Set in dystopian present where the United States Government has been replaced by a totalitarian regime (something which seems scarily prescient given our current circumstance), The Long Walk follows a group of “volunteers” on a grueling contest to walk continuously over hundreds of miles until only a single winner remains standing (with the quick and brutal murders of any contestants who fall off the pace). Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the film has many of the same themes of King’s The Running Man, or other films such as The Hunger Games and Death Race, making social commentary on a corrupt system and the gamification of life for ordinary people turning survival into entertainment.

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Fuck Marry Kill

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  • Title: Fuck Marry Kill
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I really do root for Lucy Hale, but she doesn’t make it easy. Fuck Marry Kill is a middling romantic comedy spliced together with a below-average thriller that leaves everyone unsatisfied. Hale stars as 30 year-old Eva who jumps back in to the dating scene after the end of a long relationship (with a doofus we can’t possibly see her spending 8 minutes with let alone 8 years) just as a serial killer is targeting young women from dating apps. While the killer is discussed early on, most of the first-half of the film follows Eva meeting three bachelors and discovering she’s walked into the classic Fuck, Marry, Kill scenario with her friends (Virginia Gardner, Bethany Brown, and JayR) and sister (Brooke Nevin) all having differing opinions on who she should end up with.

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