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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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1974 – Murder on the Orient Express

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  • Title: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the 1930s and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is one of the rare instances where I prefer the Kenneth Branagh version than the classic telling we received in 1974. Director Sidney Lumet assembles a well-known cast who all board a train for murder. However, from the very beginning of the film I have issues with how Lumet chose to frame the story revealing the importance of the Armstrong tragedy in several scenes and newspaper front pages that go on ad nauseam.

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(Herbie) The Love Bug

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  • Title: The Love Bug
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1969’s The Love Bug introduced audiences to Herbie, a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle who comes into the possession of washed-up racecar driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones). Douglas regains confidence driving the remarkable little car, finds love in the unlikely assistant (Michele Lee) to his villainous rival (David Tomlinson), and finally learns to accept and appreciate Herbie as far more than a car.

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