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Jason and the Argonauts

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  • Title: Jason and the Argonauts
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A larger than life summer blockbuster a decade before the idea even existed, 1963’s fantasy epic has something for everyone. Adapted from the Greek epic poem, our story follows Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his band of soldiers on the quest to find and retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote kingdom of Colchis at the end of the world. Jason’s quest is spurred by his need for justice and  his plans to retake the throne of Thessaly stolen by Pelias (Douglas Wilmer) who murdered its king and the rest of Jason’s family.

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Yojimbo

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  • Title: Yojimbo
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Akira Kurosawa knew how to tell stories that last. The simple story of a ronin (Toshirō Mifune) wandering into a small town and causing chaos to solve a larger problem has been remade, adapted, and inspired dozens (if not hundreds) of projects over the years from spaghetti westerns to samurai science fiction. My favorite, however, has always been Stan Sakai‘s Usagi Yojimbo which owes much to Kurosawa’s tale.

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Duck Amuck

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  • Title: Duck Amuck
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Widely regarded as one of the best cartoon shorts of all-time, 1953’s “Duck Amuck” features an increasingly agitated Daffy Duck (Mel Blanc) constantly breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the unseen artist who forgets to draw the scenery (leaving the Duck against a blank background), or, when drawing something, varying it (or Daffy himself) in wildly inconsistent ways making it impossible for Daffy to tell a story.

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The Acquisitive Chuckle

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  • Title: The Acquisitive Chuckle
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Mystery Monday takes us back to the Milano restaurant located in Midtown Manhattan where a group of six friends would gather once a month for an exclusive dinner of themselves, their server Henry Jackson, and a (decidedly male) guest of their choice to be grilled over the course of the evening and would invariably would bring up a problem or puzzle to be solved (almost always by Henry rather than the more distinguished members of the club).

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Hamnet

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  • Title: Hamnet
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Based on the historical novel of the same name, Hamnet offers a fictionalized telling of William Shakespeare‘s (Paul Mescal) family and the series of events that could (depending on what scholars you believe) have played into the playwright’s finest tragedy. Whether or not the account is accurate, there is no debate that director Chloé Zhao (who co-wrote the screenplay with the novel’s author Maggie O’Farrell) delivers a heartbreaking, yet ultimately cathartic, emotional tour de force that won’t leave a dry eye in the house.

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