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Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
The new Apes movie is set many years after the conclusion of 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes. Many apes societies have grown from when the Moses-like Caesar brought his people to an oasis, while humans have been reduced to a feral-like existence. Some ape groups have never heard of Caesar, while others have contorted his teaching to build burgeoning empires. In this setting, one ape leader begins to enslave other groups to find human technology, while another ape, who watched his clan be taken, embarks on a journey to find freedom. A young human woman becomes key to the latter's quest, although she has plans of her own.
 

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Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine decided not to enter the afterlife to stay on Earth and investigate crimes that involve supernatural stuff. This Sandman spinoff series has the ghosts of two British boarding-school boys born 70 years apart open a detective agency, taking on cases from their fellow specters while evading the attention of Death. Neil Gaiman, who created the characters in the comics, is executive producer.

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Ripley (Netflix)
A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to bring his vagabond son home from Italy. The Talented Mr. Ripley gets another retelling, this time as a limited series with Andrew Scott as the man himself. In this adaptation, shot in moody black and white, the plot remains the same (Tom Ripley is sent to extricate Dickie Greenleaf from expat life in Italy) but the tone is much different than in the Anthony Minghella film.
 

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