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Outland

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  • Title: Outland
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Set in a mining station on the moon of Jupiter, 1981’s Outland stars Sean Connery as the recently-assigned Marshal William T. O’Niel. With his wife (Kika Markham) and son (Nicholas Barnes) unable to deal with the conditions of his job any longer, and leaving for Earth, O’Neil finds himself increasingly isolated especially after he begins looking into a series of suspicious deaths and uncovers a company-approved amphetamine smuggling operation increasing the productivity of the miners but also making a number of the workers insane.

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Quigley Down Under

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  • Title: Quigley Down Under
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Tom Selleck stars as Wyoming sharpshooter Matthew Quigley who arrives in Australia having been hired by land baron Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman). After discovering Marston wants Quigley to use his skills, and his experimental rifle, to hunt Aboriginal Australians, Quigley not-so-politely declines leading to him being left for dead in the Outback with a half-crazed woman locals refer to as Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo) whom constantly refers to Quigley as Roy.

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Killing Faith

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  • Title: Killing Faith
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Set in the equally bleak surroundings of mid-19th Century Arizona, Killing Faith follows the unlikely group of a freed slave (DeWanda Wise), her passing daughter (Emily Katherine Ford), a drug-abusing doctor (Guy Pearce), and a half-wit (Jack Alcott) on a five day journey from the town they are no longer accepted to a neighboring one which they hope will lead to salvation.

At the center of the film, although without any lines of her own, is the young girl who is a carrier of the plague ravaging the area. Some, including her mother, believe the child has been infected by the Devil leading to the supernatural overtones of the movie (which are more subtle than you would expect, accepting only by the poorly educated and fearful of the Western territory) and the religious conversations between the mother and the doctor (haunted by the loss of his own daughter to the same disease).

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The Unholy Trinity

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  • Title: The Unholy Trinity
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Set in the late 19th Century, the town of Trinity is presented to us through the unassuming eyes of Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) who has just watched his estranged father (Tim Daly) hung for a crime he didn’t commit. Trinity is your typical Old West town with raucous inhabitants, a sheriff struggling to keep order, and justice often coming from the end of a rope or a gun. Mistaking the current sheriff for the one who framed his father, Henry has a run-in with Gabriel Dove (Pierce Brosnan), although the misunderstanding is quicky resolved. 

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Tornado

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  • Title: Tornado
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Set at the end of the 18th Century in a mostly desolate stretch of wilderness, Kōki stars as our titular protagonist who chooses to help a young boy (Nathan Malone) foolish enough to rob a band of ruthless outlaws, temporarily distracted by the puppet show Tornado was putting on with her father (Takehiro Hira). The puppet show showcased a bloody battle between good and evil which Tornado’s own story will soon mirror as her decisions to try and keep the gold will soon cost her everything.

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