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Alice in Wonderland

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  • Title: Alice in Wonderland (1951)
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Disney’s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel is a fever dream dropping young Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) down the rabbit hole into a nonsensical world which is both everything she ever wanted and far more than she bargained for. The film follows Alice through a series of odd, mostly disconnected, and admittedly beautifully rendered, adventures coming across the likes of the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn), the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton), and others, while following the White Rabbit (Bill Thompson).

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Naked Weapon

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  • Title: Naked Weapon
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Nearly a decade before she was Nikita, Maggie Q was basically Nikita. Siu-Tung Ching‘s 2002 thriller stars Maggie Q, Anya Wu, and Jewel Lee as the three survivors from dozens of young girls abducted over the world, trained to be assassins, and pitted against each other by the elusive Madam M (Almen Wong). The movie offers flashbacks to the the girls’ training and graduation while in the present our protagonists are offered one last job to earn their freedom only to fall into a trap laid by a Yakuza boss (Andrew Lien) out for revenge against the women for one of their previous missions.

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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War

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  • Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
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A follow-up to Amazon’s Jack Ryan series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War pulls retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) back into action. While doing a favor for his old friend, Ryan will discover disturbing truths while hunting down a ghost from James Greer’s (Wendell Pierce) past obsessed with returning to the morally reprehensible enhanced anti-terrorism measures post-9/11 which he believes were all that saved the world from destruction (and are still needed to keep the world safe today).

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The Murder Mansion

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  • Title: La mansión de la niebla
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The 1972 Spanish-Italian horror-thriller traps a group of travelers in a mansion so far off the beaten path that the locals are unaware of its existence. Director Francisco Lara Polop‘s hit-and-miss story offers a bit of a convoluted setup, and some well-timed mysterious fog, to get a drifter (Andrés Resino), a hitchhiker (Lisa Leonardi), a prick (Franco Fantasia), an heiress (Analía Gadé), and a lawyer (Eduardo Fajardo) and his wife (Yelena Samarina) all to this lonely, although well-kept, mansion owned by a woman who may, or may not, be a vampire (Ida Galli).

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Blue Thunder

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  • Title: Blue Thunder
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I was always more of a Blue Thunder guy than an Airwolf guy. Released in 1983, Blue Thunder starred Roy Scheider as a police helicopter pilot who uncovers a murderous conspiracy when he’s given the chance to test pilot a high-tech chopper, designed for surveillance and legally-questionable (and quite murderous) use against civic disobedience, which is planned to be released during the 1984 Olympics.

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