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After escaping from prison, Sam encounters Clydie, a young widow, and her two small children who are being harassed by an evil land developer. Sam’s efforts to protect Clydie and her children only lead to increased pressure from the land developer and his hired goons. Nowhere to Run wants to be a lot of things: an action movie, a lighthearted comedy and a tender romance. Unfortunately, it never quite nails the tone of any of these things. The cast, at least, is great. JCVD plays Sam, Rosanna Arquette plays Clydie, Kieran Culkin plays Clydie’s son Mookie and Joss Ackland knocks it out of the park as Franklin Hale, the diabolical land developer. While Nowhere to Run isn’t an outright bad movie, it never really coheres into anything particularly good either.
Rating: 57%
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Instead of arriving on Turlough’s home planet, the TARDIS appears next to a jousting match in the English countryside in the year 1215. Everyone in the crowd is understandably freaked out, except for King John and the mysterious French knight Sir Gilles. Only, they aren’t really King John and Sir Gilles, they’re actually Kamelion, a shape shifting robot, and the Master. With the help of Kamelion, the Master intends to depose the actual King and prevent the signing of the Magna Carta. Not a bad idea for a story, right? Too bad it’s half as long as a standard Doctor Who serial. At just two episodes, it’s not long enough to flesh out the plot, the stakes or any of the new characters. There’s not even enough for the regular cast to do. Turlough spends most of the story locked up in a dungeon and all Tegan gets to do is complain about being cold. At the end of the story, the Doctor grabs Kamelion and heads off in the TARDIS without even trying to clear up any of the confusion surrounding his appearance.
Rating: You don't have to pretend%
Davey Osborne has a powerful imagination and everyone in his life (his father, his friends, the police) thinks he needs to grow up a little bit. So, when a real-life spy scenario falls in his lap, it’s not long before Davey realizes that he’s on his own. Cloak & Dagger is a Hitchcockian spy adventure for kids that has a dark tone that could only have come out of the 1980s. Henry Thomas stars as Davey and Dabney Coleman plays a dual role as both super spy Jack Flack and Davey’s struggling father. At times sweet, suspenseful and violent, Cloak & Dagger is a forgotten gem.
Rating: 72%
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Fun Fact: William Forsythe, who played Morris, would go out to star in films like Out for Justice, The Rock and The Devil’s Rejects.
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