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Sleepy Hollow

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  • Title: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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Tim Burton’s stylish 1999 adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” turns Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) from schoolteacher to constable sent to Sleepy Hollow by superiors tired of him spouting nonsense about using evidence, science, and logic to solve crimes. The small hamlet in upstate New York has had a series of recent murders, all decapitated by a figure on horseback who the locals believe to be the ghost of a Hessian mercenary in search of a head.

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Tequila Sunrise

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  • Title: Tequila Sunrise
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Written and directed by Robert Towne, 1988’s neo-noir Tequila Sunrise gives us a love triangle between longtime friends in a former drug dealer (Mel Gibson) attempting to go straight, a narcotics cop (Kurt Russell) who fears busting his friend, and restaurant owner (Michelle Pfeiffer) who both fall for. Never quite willing to get bleak or tragic enough to enter true noir territory (partly due to studio interference), the film still makes the most of its stars (even if if this one wouldn’t rank among the best on any of their filmographies).

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No Holds Barred

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  • Title: No Holds Barred
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No Holds Barred makes Ready to Rumble look like Citizen Kane. Arguably one of the worst things to ever be captured on film, Hulk Hogan (who also produced alongside Vince McMahon) stars as WWF Champion Rip Thomas (who is basically Hulk Hogan but trading in his trademark yellow and red for light blue). Our villain is Tom Brell (Kurt Fuller dialed up to 15), the head of a rival network desperate to bring Rip over (despite constantly demeaning all athletes, and wrestlers in particular).

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The Assassination Bureau (Limited)

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  • Title: The Assassination Bureau
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1969’s The Assassination Bureau is a bizarre farcical adventure starring Diana Rigg as women’s rights activist and aspiring reporter Sonia Winter who attempts to break the biggest story of a secret cabal of assassins by hiring the organization to kill their own leader Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed).

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Nancy Drew… Detective

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  • Title: Nancy Drew… Detective
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Mystery Monday takes us back to the first of four movies released in the late 1930s starring Bonita Granville as teenage detective Nancy Drew. Based on The Password to Larkspur Lane, Nancy looks into the unexpected disappearance of Mary Eldredge (Helena Phillips Evans) shortly after she announced plans to donate $250,000 to the local school.

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