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The Great Race

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  • Title: The Great Race
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Throwback Thursday takes us to the most expensive comedy ever made at the time it was released and featured what has come to be known as the greatest pie fight ever captured on-screen. With 1965’s The Great Race director Blake Edwards (known for his over-the-top comedies) delivers his love letter to silent films in a battle of good and evil across the globe. Edwards fills, one might even suggest overfills, the film with silent movie gags and tropes including a ballroom brawl, sword fights, characters mistaken for lookalikes, slapstick and cartoonish humor (including the villains blowing up), and running gags.

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Hellboy: The Crooked Man

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  • Title: Hellboy: The Crooked Man
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Loosely based on the three-issue comic of the same name, Hellboy: The Crooked Man was a critical and box office flop attempting to steer into more horror aspects of the Hellboy comics without the humor or charm of the Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman films. The choice allows for the film to go with a lower budget and more of a indie horror movie feel, but ultimately comes off more confused than creepy and more cheap than cost-effective.

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The War of the Rohirrim

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  • Title: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a movie set in one corner of The Lord of the Rings Universe. Sadly, it’s not a particularly interesting corner devoid of anyone other than the squabbling humans of Rohan. Providing the storyline of how Helm’s Deep got its name, the story revolves around the pride of men and quest for vengeance that ends badly for all. Honestly, I’m bewildered why anyone thought this was the story to expand the universe of Tolkien beyond The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay

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  • Title: Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay
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1971’s exploitative fantasy Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay leads young French beauty Françoise (Mireille Saunin) to the island of Avalon filled with beautiful, and often scantily clad, women and run by the sorceress Morgane le Fay (Dominique Delpierre). In search of her missing friend Anna (Michèle Perello), who disappeared during the night after making love in an abandoned barn, Françoise is confused by the fantastic surroundings, although she begins to become dimly aware of the dangers they hide.

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Elevation

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  • Title: Elevation
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Three years after an invasion of generic unstoppable CGI monsters, where humanity’s few survivors are living at high elevation deep in the mountains, we’re introduced to Will (Anthony Mackie), his son Hunter (Danny Boyd Jr.), the haunted Nina (Morena Baccarin), and the tough-talking Katie (Maddie Hasson). Needing medicine for his son, Will and the two women set off on a dangerous journey across the mountains.

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