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Canary Black

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  • Title: Canary Black
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Even for a throwaway action flick, Canary Black stretches any attempt at credibility. Our plot involves Kate Beckinsale as super-spy Avery Graves whose husband (Rupert Friend) is kidnapped. Avery is then blackmailed into stealing a file so secret not even the President of the United States knows what it is. Knowledge isn’t a problem for our baddie (Goran Kostić), however, who apparently knows everything about everyone including having access to all kinds of CIA classified records such as Avery’s psych profile.

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

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  • Title: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
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Widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made, the low-budget Santa Claus Conquers the Martians features a story about Martians kidnapping Santa Claus (John Call), and two American children (Victor Stiles and Donna Conforti), to Mars to instill the spirit of Christmas and wonder in their own children. Just about as wacky as it sounds, the story also takes a turn when one of the Martian (Vincent Beck) soldiers, disagreeing with this plan to sully Martian society with Earth nonsense, repeatedly attempts to sabotage the endeavor and murder Santa and the children.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

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  • Title: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
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Director Johan Grimonprez‘s film is an unusually structure documentary blending music, soundbites, interviews, archival footage, and narration from different sources to examine jazz, decolonization, subversion, autonomy, political assassination, and Cold War clashing ideologies all through the lens of the murder of prime minister Patrice Lumumba of the newly independent Congo which was unwittingly aided by Louis Armstrong in his role as an ambassador to Africa.

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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

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  • Title: The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes & Silver Blaze
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Film Masters’ Restored Archive Collection collects the final two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Arthur Wontner in this double-feature single-disc Blu-ray. Based on The Valley of Fear, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes gives us Wontner as a retiring Holmes who, with Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming), investigates the apparent murder of Mr. John Douglas (Leslie Perrins) of Birlestone Manor who turns out to be quite alive despite the machinations of a secret society and Professor Moriarty (Lyn Harding). The film incorporates an extended flashback to events in America (explaining the motives for wanting Douglas dead) as well as aspects of “The Final Problem” involving Moriarty’s visit to Holmes at 221B Baker Street and an apparent fall to death which ends the film.

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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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  • Title: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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The latest from the Wallace & Gromit franchise involves Wallace‘s (Ben Whitehead) inventions of garden gnome robots, which Gromit is suspicious of immediately, being turned against him by Feathers McGraw who eventually uses the group to break out of the Zoo where he’s been kept a prisoner since the events of The Wrong Trousers. After the gnomes are turned evil (because for some reason Wallace created them to able to be evil?) the group also ruin the inventor’s name turning both the locals and police against him.

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