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The Marksman
Jim (Liam Neeson) is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. This movie explores the many sides of the Mexican American border issues. BP, drug cartels, Americans living near the border and the innocent people on both sides of the illegal alien issue. There is no black and white, just a lot of grays. Criminals never have the right to do what they do, but at the same time, some who have are crossing the border are trying for a better life.
 

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Palmer (Apple TV+)
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer (Justin Timberlake) returns home to put his life back together and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family. Eddie Palmer (played by Timberlake) has just gotten out of jail for armed robbery and almost beating his intended mark to death when caught. His first stop is his grandmother Vivian’s (June Squibb) house in rural Louisiana, and then to find a job to keep his parole officer off his back. He just barely qualifies to work as a janitor at the local elementary school, where he notices a familiar face. Sam (Ryder Allen) is the son of the fast-living Shelly (Juno Temple), who rents out Vivian’s yard for her trailer, so they’re Palmer’s neighbors and frequently more than that. Forces conspire to ensure that Palmer is the only adult left to look after Sam. And though he initially resents the assignment, eventually he grows to love the boy,

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Batman: Soul of the Dragon
It is the 1970s and Batman teams with some unlikely people. The world's greatest detective discovers that there is a common link between him, Richard Dragon, Lady Shiva, and Bronze Tiger. They each were trained by the same master of the martial arts, who just so happens to have been missing for many years under very mysterious circumstances. They track down the mystery to the origins of a mysterious ancient relic that may just claim all of their lives.
 

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