Guest: Rick Forchuk - TV Week Magazine Columnist and CKNW Contributor In theatres: - Flight Risk (2025): It's been almost 30 years since Mark Wahlberg played a villain in a movie, and in this spare thriller from director Mel Gibson, his character Daryl - not his real name - is bad to the bone. More than 90% of this film takes place inside a small, single-engine aircraft with just three actors - Wahlberg, who is the pilot, but isn't what he seems to be; Topher Grace as Winston, an accountant for a criminal organization who is off to testify against the mob; and Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey, who is Madolyn, a US Marshall taking Winston to Seattle from Alaska - Presence (2024): It has been 24 years since we saw a movie that was an entirely different slant on the traditional haunted house story, and with this one from director Steven Soderbergh, it was well worth the wait. Like many haunted house stories, this one starts with a family moving into a nice suburban house that is something of a bargain. Lucy Liu plays the mom, Rebekah, dad is played by Chris Sullivan, and two teenagers are, respectively, played by newcomer Eddie Maday as Tyler, with Callina Liang as the focal point of the film, the daughter named Chloe. This is a family in crisis. Chloe is in therapy, having lost two girlfriends to drug overdoses recently, Tyler is working hard at being a social climber in his new school, and Rebekah and Chris have a marriage hanging together by a thread On Netflix: - Back in Action (2025): The last time Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz worked together was in 1995 in the remake of "Annie, the Broadway show-turned-motion-picture. Now, streaming on Netflix, and last week the most watched show on that outlet, we have the pair reunited, this time as a normal suburban couple, Matt and Emily, with two kids ... although, 15 years earlier they were spies working for covert organizations and then went domestic. Part of their cover was a witness protection program in which they lived a life of raising children and mowing lawns. An event occurs that breaches their privacy, and soon bad guys with an international flavour are after them. In some respects, they relish the action, with Emily especially attacking the villains with a zeal she has not felt in over a decade
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