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The Rock

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  • Title: The Rock
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Flashback Friday takes us back to director Michael Bay‘s best film. Sure you could make a case for Armageddon, and some (not me) would argue for Bad Boys II. However, the most successful movie of the popcorn director’s career is unquestionably the 1996 film that united Sean Connery as an aging British Secret Agent unjustly imprisoned for decades after stealing the United States’ most precious secrets and Nicolas Cage as an FBI chemist who find themselves responsible for saving the lives of 81 hostages from mercenaries who have taken control of Alcatraz.

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Daredevil – Isle of Joy

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Isle of Joy
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Moving past the Muse storyline as quickly as possible, which was little more than a blip, “Isle of Joy” offers and episode focusing on our hero and villain’s relationships with storylines designed to bring one couple together and (perhaps unnecessarily) pull the other apart. Despite several characters telling us over and over again that Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has become erratic and emotional, I think that’s more than a bit of an overstatement to ultimately get the episode where it needs to go in the time allotted. He’s certainly less than happy to learn the about his girlfriend’s relationship with the Mayor and, as one might expect (especially someone like a psychiatrist), he’s running a bit hot after a face-to-face with the man who killed his best friend.

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Play Dirty

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  • Title: Play Dirty (2025)
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Not to be confused with the upcoming Shane Black film of the same name, Play Dirty stars Theo Rossi as corrupt Police Detective Frank Grady about to be indicted by Internal Affairs for his partnership with a local crime boss (Ron Perlman). In order to run, Frank needs the money he’s owed. However, Murray (Perlman) offers a condition of only paying out once Frank takes out Murray’s various competition all in one night. However, what’s set up as a near-impossible task turns out to be relatively easy for Frank who makes it through most of the night unscathed (with his only wound coming late in the film) to tell his story to a couple of tweakers.

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Heat

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  • Title: Heat
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In honor of the passing of Val Kilmer, this Flashback Friday takes us back to 1995’s tour-de-force crime drama Heat. Unquestionably Michael Mann‘s best film, Heat splits its focus between a crew of armed robbers led by Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and the cops out to stop them led by LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). No film has played both sides so well, although if I have a complaint it’s that a more ambiguous ending that faded to black on the gunshot in the weeds on the edge of Los Angeles International Airport allowing the audience to determine the winner of the pair’s struggle would seem to be more fitting.

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F/X

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  • Title: F/X
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to 80s action. 1986’s F/X, which would later spawn both a lesser sequel and 90s TV-show, stars Australian actor Bryan Brown as practical special-effects expert Roland Tyler. Enlisted by members of the Justice Department (Cliff De Young and Mason Adams) to fake the assassination of a mob witness (Jerry Orbach), Tyler agrees only for things to go wrong very quickly. Soon Tyler is running from corrupt cops and attempting to expose what is really going on with an overly-complicated plot that works best when you don’t put too much thought into how it all fits together.

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