Nickel Boys

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  • Title: Nickel Boys
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Presented from a first-person perspective with the camera acting as the eyes of our protagonist, Nickel Boys is a hard film to review both in terms of subject matter and in how the story is framed for the audience. The technique certainly allows the film to stick out, even when the person whose perspective unexpectedly shifts between our main character Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) who finds himself in a reform school after being in the wrong place at the wrong time and Turner (Brandon Wilson) who he meets at Nickel Academy. 

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Unstoppable

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  • Title: Unstoppable
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Unstoppable is your typical by-the-numbers sports biopic underdog story that succeeds in what it sets out to do. Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, a one-legged student athlete who through the first-hour of the movie struggles to make his dream of wrestling for a major college program a reality. If this wasn’t a true story, Disney would likely have made something quite like it (albeit perhaps with less of the family drama).

The film is filled with struggles for Anthony to overcome including an abusive step-father (Bobby Cannavale), money troubles, not being recruited by the big schools, and finally making the team as a walk-on only to see the wrestling program cut because of lack of funding. Strap in, because it’s going to be a Sisyphean struggle for this kid to live his dream.

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Interior Chinatown – Translator

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Translator
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While the episode’s title refers to the latest role Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) takes on after his uncle is arrested allowing for some insight into his uncle, the larger theme of the episode is the continued ripples Willis’ actions have had on the world. Lana (Chloe Bennet) uses the tropes of the weekly murder investigation to solve a case in record time allowing for her to grab backup to save Willis from his uncle who it turns out wasn’t out to hurt him at all, despite the glitching of the world we see making him appear more dangerous to the detectives. Turner (Sullivan Jones), still despondent over recent events, is reinvigorated by Lana’s actions and the pleas of Willis at the end of the episode cementing another shift and putting the case of Willis’ brother to the forefront.

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Green Hornet • Miss Fury #1

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The first issue of the new mini-series putting the Green Hornet and Miss Fury together is a bit hit-and-miss. The comic opens with the action already underway and the pair fighting a group of thugs together under a circus tent. After the action is done we get the pair meeting out of costume at a charity event for an extended soap opera interlude before finally bringing back the costumes and bringing the pair back together for a bookend action scene where once again the audience is late to the party.

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