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Thunderheart

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  • Title: Thunderheart
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Largely forgotten, the 1992 thriller set on a South Dakota Native American reservation casts Val Kilmer as FBI Agent Ray Levoi assigned to the case for his Sioux lineage which works as PR move for the FBI (even if he doesn’t appear Native American and has spent most of his life shunning that heritage). Kilmer, who had some Native American ancestry on his father’s side, delivers a strong performance of a man struggling to find truth where the only ones talking to him are almost certainly lying.

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His & Hers – Episode 1

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  • Title: His & Hers – Episode 1
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Adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, the opening episode of His & Hers introduces us to a sleepy small town in Georgia which has had its first murder in a decade. Our two main characters, each presented to the audience as likely suspects with something suspicious to hide, are the local investigator (Jon Bernthal) and his estranged wife (Tessa Thompson) attempting to jumpstart her career after a year off following some kind of tragedy and breakdown.

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The Dutchman

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  • Title: The Dutchman
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An adaptation of the 1964 play (which was inspired by the myth of The Flying Dutchman), director Andre Gaines‘ The Dutchman is social commentary wrapped up in a messy metaphysical metaphor that, while it has something to say on both the subject of being a successful Black man in America and on marital infidelity and temptation, is far more opaque than it should be except, perhaps, in Clay’s long monologues that are meant to offer cultural critique to the audience more than the film’s antagonist.

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The Housemaid

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  • Title: The Housemaid
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For a thriller starring both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, The Housemaid is surprisingly lacking in heat or anything resembling eroticism. Sure, we get one sex scene halfway through, but even that seems perfunctory more than adding life into the bewildering thriller that throws out its playbook halfway through, spends 20 minutes speaking directly to the audience setting up an alternative permise, and then finally delivers something more deverting in its final 20 minutes.

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We Bury the Dead

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  • Title: We Bury the Dead
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Following a United States military experiment gone wrong, a large section of Tasmania is dead and the city of Hobart is still in flames. Spurred on by the need to find her husband (Matt Whelan), who was on a corporate retreat near the southern coast, Ava (Daisy Ridley) signs up to help identify the dead. Adding to the flavor of the film is the fact that a small percentage of those killed by the blast come back to life as zombies.

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