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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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a movie that has alluded me most of my life. Just missing out on seeing it theaters, somehow I never caught up with it on home video, cable, or streaming. Until now. Sadly the ambitious, albeit derivative (stealing prominently from Star Wars and countless other sci-fi tales), animated 3D film wasn’t worth the wait.
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I’ve tried to like The Jacket, but, despite the film starring one of my favorite actresses, I’ve never been been sold on its unusual premise which I’m not sure even screenwriter Massy Tadjedin complete understands.
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He-Man & She-Ra: The Ultimate Collection collects all 130 episodes of both series, the 1985 film He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword which introduced He-Man’s twin sister, and He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special. The multi-disc set also includes features on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Filmation animation.
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Released in 2002, Steven Spielberg‘s Minority Report offered a slick sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future resulting in huge financial and critical acclaim. However, before it was a feature film adapted by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (who admitted in an interview with Script Magazine that he didn’t understand the original story) The Minority Report was a short novella by Peter K. Dick. And for those who read the story before seeing the movie it’s almost impossible to reconcile the fundamental changes to not only the narrative but also the core ideas Dick was exploring to such an extent that the film’s title no longer makes sense. It would be another decade before a writer and director would so fundamentally misunderstand their source material resulting in Man of Steel.
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