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31 Aug

Peaky Blinders: Aunt Polly Bonus Scene Could Point the Way for the Character’s Future

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Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season five. Polly Gray, Shelby Company treasurer, Romani Queen and clairvoyant witch, is the fabric of Peaky Blinders. The glamorous, redoubtable Shelby matriarch is a matchless creation. Sharp-tongued and sharply tailored, Polly gets all the best lines and all the best looks. She’s an integral part of the family’s stratospheric ascent, having run the bookmakers while the boys were fighting in France, and continuing to run things ever since at Tommy’s side (or just as often, at his throat). She drips wit, shoots rapists, twists mafiosos around her little finger, scares the shit out of abusive nuns,…

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29 Apr

Star Trek Villains Who Actually Had a Point

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This article contains spoilers for various parts of the Star Trek franchise. Last fall, airing just a few weeks apart, both Star Trek and Star Wars debuted season premieres of new streaming TV episodes in which the heroes of each show had to fight a giant, legless worm-monster. In Star Trek: Discovery’s “That Hope Is You Part 1,” it was the deadly Tranceworm, while The Mandalorian’s “Chapter 9: The Marshall” had the murderous Krayt Dragon. The differences between the Final Frontier and the Faraway Galaxy could not have been made clearer by these dueling beasts: in Mando, the plot involved…

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30 Mar

Does the Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Cast Point to a Young Luke Skywalker Cameo?

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Some fans thought this day would never come but it’s finally happening: Ewan McGregor is returning to the role of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in a Disney+ live-action series set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith. That means we’ll meet an older Obi-Wan in exile on Tatooine but not quite the same age as Sir Alec Guinness in A New Hope. The fact that the show takes place during a largely unexplored period in the Jedi’s life should provide some exciting narrative opportunities for director Deborah Chow and writer Joby Harold. Interestingly enough, McGregor won’t be the only returning…

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30 Dec

Does Marvel’s New Spider-Man Costume Point to a Black Widow Villain Connection?

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Ah, the new superhero costume reveal. That thing where the comic companies muck with some of their most iconic visuals to get a rise out of the fans, get eyes on their product, hopefully tell some kind of story with it, then go back to the status quo. Just now I’m getting memories of Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, breaking from the script to openly complain about Electric Blue Superman. While most of the time, these new looks get rather negative reactions, they at least happen for a reason. When Batman was redesigned in the ’90s to…

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11 Nov

The Expanse Season 5 Will Finally Pay Off This Season 1 Plot Point

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Way back in The Expanse Season 1, before the Roci left Tycho on their mission to find “Lionel Polanski,” Naomi told Fred Johnson: “One day, I’m gonna ask you to find someone no questions asked.” Readers of the book series no doubt realized right away that this was a reference to Filip, Naomi’s long-lost son with charismatic and manipulative OPA terrorist Marco Inaros, but TV viewers didn’t hear Naomi bring up her son until well into Season 2. Later, we find out that Naomi hasn’t seen now-teen Filip since he was a baby. In Season 4, finding Filip is no…

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09 Nov

Star Wars From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back Review

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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back is a fun anthology of Star Wars tales. Like its predecessor, it offers a variety of stories rather than simply evoking the dark second act of the original movie trilogy in particular. Here are slapstick comedies and lamentations, space battles and alien conclaves. Although some of the stories lack structure or feel unfinished, there are enough good ones here to please just about any Star Wars fan. One sure crowd-pleaser is “Rendezvous Point,” a Rogue Squadron tale by Jason Fry. This is a fun jaunt back into the spirit of…

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01 Oct

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 9 Review: Crisis Point

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 9 If you had to pick one Star Trek thing to represent the entire franchise and put that piece of media on a Golden Record, would you select an excellent Trek movie or a fantastic Trek episode? This division is at the heart of “Crisis Point,” a brazen episode of Lower Decks that brings a fresh perspective to the basic differences between Trek movies and Trek episodes.  And though this episode is startlingly on-the-nose, it paradoxically makes an argument that maybe, the very best of Trek can…

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28 Aug

PS5 Pre-order Registration Begins as Reports Point to November Release Date

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Sony has invited PlayStation owners to register for a chance to be the first consumers to pre-order the PlayStation 5 ahead of its launch this holiday. The email invitation, which was only sent to those with active PSN Online IDs, suggests that Sony is preparing to finally announce a release date for the PS5 as well as the price of the standard and digital edition of the console. A new report from VGC, which spoke to “retail and development sources,” suggests the long-awaited release date will fall sometime in November. According to these sources, Sony has “booked a significant marketing…

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12 Jul

Point Blank

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When his pregnant wife is kidnapped and held as collateral, Paul (Anthony Mackie), an ER nurse, must team with the badly injured career criminal and murder suspect (Frank Grillo) under his charge in order to save the lives of his wife and unborn child. Pitted against rival gangs and a deadly ring of corrupt cops, the unlikely duo find a way to survive together in the fight of their lives. [Netflix]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 12, 2019

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01 Jun

Action Point

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D.C. (Johnny Knoxville) is the crackpot owner of a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park where the rides are designed with minimum safety for maximum fun. Just as D.C.?s estranged teenage daughter Boogie comes to visit, a corporate mega-park opens nearby and jeopardizes the future of Action Point. To save his beloved theme park and his relationship with his daughter, D.C. and his loony crew of misfits risk everything to pull out all the stops ? and stunts.Rated: RRelease Date: Jun 01, 2018

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14 May

Sollers Point

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Keith (McCaul Lombardi) is a twenty-four-year-old newly released from prison and living with his father (Jim Belushi) under house arrest in Baltimore. Keith is struggling to reestablish himself, and break free of the bonds forged behind bars, within a community scarred by unemployment, neglect, and deeply entrenched segregation. His intentions are in the right place and he possesses an aggressive desire to get back on his feet, but as he taps into all his familiar resources, he finds that he may be reverting to his old ways.Rated: RRelease Date: May 11, 2018

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09 Mar

Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine

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Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine is the dramatic and inspiring portrait of people willing to give up their private, normal lives to unite in a collective effort to bring the rule of law and democracy to their country. Their battle to wrest power from the autocrats and plutocrats who control their governments is a struggle that is being waged around the world, from the Mideast to America. The outcome affects not only the future of Ukraine, but the future of democracy throughout the world.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 02, 2018

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