Movie and TV Talk: Gunpowder Milkshake, Naked Singularity, and Hit & Run

On this episode of Why Watch That:

MOVIE FIRST LOOK

Gunpowder Milkshake

Website: Netflix

Synopsis: Sam (KAREN GILLAN) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (LENA HEADEY), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into a fierce hit-woman. She uses her “talents” to clean up The Firm’s most dangerous messes. She’s as efficient as she is loyal. But when a high-risk job goes wrong, Sam must choose between serving The Firm and protecting the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl - Emily (CHLOE COLEMAN). With a target on her back, Sam has only one chance to survive: Reunite with her mother and her lethal associates, The Librarians (MICHELLE YEOH, ANGELA BASSETT and CARLA GUGINO). These three generations of women must now learn to trust each other, stand up to The Firm and their army of henchmen, and raise hell against those who could take everything from them.

Release Date: Available on Netflix July 14, 2021

Directed by: Navot Papushado

Screenplay by: Navot Papushado and Ehud Lavski

Starring: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, Chloe Coleman, and Paul Giamatti

Distributor: Netflix

Genre: Action

Running Time: 1 hour 54 minutes

Rated R

TV SNEAK PEEK

Hit & Run

Website: Netflix

MOVIE SNEAK PEEK

Naked Singularity 

Website: Screen Media

Synopsis: Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) to beat the broken system at its own game.

Release Date: In theaters August 6, 2021 and on demand August 13, 2021 

Directed by: Chase Palmer

Screenplay by: Chase Palmer and David Matthews

Based on the novel “A Naked Singularity” by Sergio De La Pava

Starring: John Boyega, Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein, Linda Lavin, and Tim Blake Nelson

Distributor: Screen Media Films

Genre: Crime

Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes

Rated R

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