You can feel the influence of 1944’s Laura over the years in everything from Twin Peaks to There’s Something About Mary. The film noir stars Gene Tierney in the title role as a woman who falls a bit too easily into love and who men become almost immediately obsessed with, even after her death.
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For the fifth time in his career, and the first time since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, director Steven Spielberg returns to the subject of alien life on Earth. Through the use of Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor who somehow know things beyond what is possible, Eve Hewson as O’Connor’s religious girlfriend, a government conspiracy run by Colin Firth, and an underground movement to reveal the truth led by Colman Domingo, Disclosure Day asks the question: Do those who know the truth of alien life have a right, or an obligation, to share that knowledge with he world?
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Okay, that’s pretty fucked up. Having never heard of “The Monkey’s Paw,” Bear (Michael Johnston) uses an odd novelty item found in the type of antique stores that sell magical items normally only found in movies like this, Needful Things, or Gremlins, to wish that his longtime crush loved him. Almost immediately, Bear sees a change in Nikki (Inde Navarrette) who becomes both more emotionally open but also psychologically unhinged.
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