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Detective Knight: Independence
Following a last-minute assignment, Detective Knight (Willis) and his partner, Fitzgerald (Munro), find themselves in the midst of a bank robbery. Paramedics Dezi (Kilmer) and Ally (Shields) are also called to the scene after a police officer is shot, but when Dezi attends to the wounded thief instead of the bank manager, he is fired for his actions. Dezi embarks on a trail of chaos and destruction that only Detective Knight can stop in time for the Fourth of July. “Detective Knight: Independence” is the third and final film of the Detective Knight trilogy and a sequel to 2022’s “Detective Knight: Redemption.”
Director: Edward Drake. Stars: Bruce Willis, Jack Kilmer, Lochlyn Munro, Willow Shields, Lorenzo Antonucci, Dina Meyer, Dax Campbell, Nadine Leon Gobet, Jimmy Jean-Louis. 91 mins. 2023.Action.
God’s Country
After her mother’s cremation and burial, university professor
Sandra (Newton) returns to her home in remote western Montana to find a red pickup truck parked in her driveway. She leaves a note on the windshield urging the occupants to park elsewhere, but the following day, Sandra find her note on the ground near a dead bird. The truck and its drivers, Nathan (Jarsky) and Samuel (White), return day after day despite Sandra’s strong insistence, and Sandra finds herself pulled into a misogynist and racist world that creeps closer to ultimate violence.
Director: Julian Higgins. Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White,Tanaya Beatty, Kai Lennox, Lynn Solomon. 102 mins. 2022. Thriller.