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Meet Joe Black

  • Title: Meet Joe Black
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Director Martin Brest‘s 1998 remake of Death Takes a Holiday stars Brad Pitt as Death who grants the ridiculously rich Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) a few extra days of life in exchange for letting him stick around in a stolen body and discover what’s so great about life for himself. The body chosen by Death just so happens to be the same man Parrish’s daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) falls for in an earlier scene. Rechristened as Joe Black, who refuses to provide any more information about himself, Joe inserts himself into Parrish’s world causing havoc for Bill and romantic confusion for Susan.

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Mean Girls

  • Title: Mean Girls
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It was a book that became a movie that became a phenomenon. Tackling high school cliques with an absurdist comedic edge, 2004’s Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan on her first day of high school as a young woman homeschooled up until that point. After making a couple of new outcast friends (Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Franzese), Cady (Lohan) is noticed by the popular mean girls (Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried) who invite her to join them.

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Scarlet

  • Title: Scarlet
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When we meet Scarlet (Mana Ashida), the medieval princess is already in the Otherworld following her failed attempt to avenge the death of her father, killed by and supplanted her uncle. Now in a realm where time is irrelevant, she’s given a second chance to kill Claudius (Kôji Yakusho) who seeks to rule the netherworld just as he sought his brother’s kingdom, and use that power to transcend into what lays beyond.

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Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1

In what must now be the fourth of fifth relaunched Moon Knight title from writer Jed MacKay (honestly who can keep track at this point), Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1 opens with a disoriented Marc Spector trapped in an elaborate simulation by Mr. Fear and Agence Byzantine in which he’s cut-off from Khonshu and his real life. However, even doped up, set in a fictional office scenario with an objective to achieve, Marc Spector subconsciously continues to fight back inventing a hero for him to believe in.

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

  • Title: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
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If you are looking for insanely wacky fun, do I have the movie for you. The unapologetically bizarre Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die stars Sam Rockwell as an unnamed man claiming to be from the future who holds a diner full of patrons hostage, with what may or may not be a bomb vest, demanding volunteers for a suicide mission to help him save the world. Along the way, neither director Gore Verbinski nor screenwriter Matthew Robinson will pull any punches as to why this world needs saving.

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