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Guilty Pleasure – One Crazy Summer

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  • Title: One Crazy Summer
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a movie that feels every bit the 80s comedy that it is. One Crazy Summer casts John Cusack as an aspiring artist who heads off for a summer vacation to Nantucket with his high school best friend George (Joel Murray) after their graduation. There the artist, who knows nothing of love, will catch the eye of a young rocker (Demi Moore) headed home to help keep her father’s estate from falling into the clutches of a greedy land tycoon (Mark Metcalf), and the bombshell girlfriend (Kimberly Foster) of the local douchebag (Matt Mulhern), who, of course, is also the tycoon’s son.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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  • Title: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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Set between the events of Bumblebee and Michael Bay’s first Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beast pulls in characters from Beast Wars: Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie without a basic understanding of either one while  not making much use of any of them. Instead, events around a genius archeologist intern (Dominique Fishback) and a former soldier on hard times (Anthony Ramos) who attempt to keep a magic crystal out of the hands of the Terrorcons who want to use it to bring forth Unicron (Colman Domingo) who is somehow trapped in another region of space.

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Mummies

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  • Title: Mummies
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The English-language Spanish film follows a trio of Egyptian mummies who leave the underworld and travel to London in search of a ring stolen by a modern-day graverobber (Hugh Bonneville). Our trio includes pair of mismatched mummies in a spoiled princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) and former chariot racer (Joe Thomas) suffering from PTSD, chosen to be wed by a flaming bird against their will (albeit through a mistake), and his younger brother (Santiago Winder) and pet lizard.

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Rio Bravo

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  • Title: Rio Bravo
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A collaboration between John Wayne and director Howard Hawks, 1959’s Rio Bravo features Wayne as an Old West sheriff with the unlikely allies of a former gunslinger turned town drunk (Dean Martin), a crippled old man (Walter Brennan) who never shuts up, and a young hot shot (Ricky Nelson) who together attempt to keep a prisoner (Claude Akins) locked up in the town jail until the local U.S. Marshal can arrive.

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Eddie Murphy & The Haunted Mansion

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  • Title: The Haunted Mansion (2003)
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With Disney’s remake about to hit theaters, we take a look back at the original film based of the Disney Park ride. The Haunted Mansion offers us Eddie Murphy and Marsha Thomason as realtors Jim and Sara Evers, who, along with their two children (Aree Davis and Marc John Jefferies), take a detour before their weekend away to examine an old mansion only to become trapped inside by an evil ghost butler (Terence Stamp) who has noticed the resemblance between Mrs. Evers and his master’s former bride (also played by Thomason).

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