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The Hunt for Red October

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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A Lot Like Love

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  • Title: A Lot Like Love
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Released 20 years ago, A Lot Like Love feels a bit forgotten by time. The romantic comedy starred Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet as affable and charming leads whose lives intersect every few years before finally realizing that each belongs with the other. Kutcher is in full shaggy dog mode, especially early as the good-natured but largely clueless dude compelled to see his “five-year plan” to fruition. Peet (perhaps in her most intoxicating on-screen performance) is the more spontaneous, but also emotionally-distant, burned often by love.

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Blackhat

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  • Title: Blackhat
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In what is certainly a lesser Michael Mann film, Chris Hemsworth stars as hacker Nicholas Hathaway released from prison to help a joint taskforce between the United States and China headed by Hathaway’s college roommate PLA Captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang). The small group also includes Dawai’s sister Chen Lien (Tang Wei) with Viola Davis and Holt McCallany making up the American side of the group. While not connected to the cyber-attacks themselves, Hathaway is responsible for the code used by the hackers to break into systems in both the United States and China.

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Fuck Marry Kill

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  • Title: Fuck Marry Kill
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I really do root for Lucy Hale, but she doesn’t make it easy. Fuck Marry Kill is a middling romantic comedy spliced together with a below-average thriller that leaves everyone unsatisfied. Hale stars as 30 year-old Eva who jumps back in to the dating scene after the end of a long relationship (with a doofus we can’t possibly see her spending 8 minutes with let alone 8 years) just as a serial killer is targeting young women from dating apps. While the killer is discussed early on, most of the first-half of the film follows Eva meeting three bachelors and discovering she’s walked into the classic Fuck, Marry, Kill scenario with her friends (Virginia Gardner, Bethany Brown, and JayR) and sister (Brooke Nevin) all having differing opinions on who she should end up with.

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The Lady Vanishes

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  • Title: The Lady Vanishes
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Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1938 thriller follows English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), one of several tralevers temporarily stranded in Bandrika, home via train. Priot to boarding the train Iris recieves a head injury but is looked after by an eldery English woman who she befriended the previous night. However, after the effects of her head injury subside she is unable to find Mrs. Froy (May Whitty) or anyone onboard the train who remembers seeing her. Convinced something odd is going on, and finding no other help avaiable, she accepts the help of the obnoxious Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) who she had a run-in at the hotel.

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