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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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Heretic

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Heretic is half a good movie that unfortunately falls completely off a cliff into unimaginative horror. The setup is strong as we meet two young Mormon missionaries making their final stop of the day to share the word of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the middle-aged Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). Tailor-made to play off an actor like Grant’s collective work, the charming man is of course not what he seems as the two young women slowly realize as an open discussion of religion becomes something far darker.

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MaXXXine

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Reveling in 80s style, writer/director Ti West completes his X series with MaXXXine featuring Mia Goth reprising her role from X. Having built up a name for herself as a pornstar, Maxine Minx finally gets her big break in an auteur’s (Elizabeth Debicki) horror film but that’s when her past comes to call in the form of a degenerate private investigator (Kevin Bacon) and his mysterious employer (Simon Prast) who know the secrets from Maxine’s past she wants to stay buried.

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The Jackal

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The Jackal

Sometimes movies just don’t quite work. Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a film that fits that category. 1997’s adaptation of The Day of the Jackal has a talented cast in Bruce Willis as the infamous assassin, Richard Gere as an IRA terrorist let out of prison to help hunt him down alongside Sidney Poitier and Diane Venora, and smaller roles from the likes of Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black all of which helped propel the film to box office success. But despite that talent on-screen, the story of hunting down the world’s greatest assassin just can’t hit the bullseye.

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