The character of Emmanuelle, first introduced by Emmanuelle Arsan in her 1967 erotic novel has been adapted several times of the years, most famously in a series of 1970s films starring Sylvia Kristel in the starring role of a young sexpot giving in to amorous, and often anonymous, sexual escapades with strangers.
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Set in a dystopian near-future (which seems to loosely blame the growing homeless for all crime in the city), the convoluted thriller from screenwriter Marco van Belle and director Timur Bekmambetov stars Chris Pratt as LAPD Detective Chris Raven. As the film opens, Raven has already been strapped to an electric chair and forced to prove his innocence to an Artificial Intelligence (played by Rebecca Ferguson) who has already judged him guilty.
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Director Park Chan-wook‘s dark comedy offers an unusual solution to a man’s struggle to find a job in modern times. We’re introduced to Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a valued long-time employee of a paper-making company who loses his position after an American buyout and automation make his job obsolete. After struggling to find a new job for months, while taking various retail jobs that don’t allow the family to keep the same lifestyle, Man-su changes his tactics and begins investigating his most likely competition with plans to literally eliminate the competition.
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Largely forgotten, the 1992 thriller set on a South Dakota Native American reservation casts Val Kilmer as FBI Agent Ray Levoi assigned to the case for his Sioux lineage which works as PR move for the FBI (even if he doesn’t appear Native American and has spent most of his life shunning that heritage). Kilmer, who had some Native American ancestry on his father’s side, delivers a strong performance of a man struggling to find truth where the only ones talking to him are almost certainly lying.
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Adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, the opening episode of His & Hers introduces us to a sleepy small town in Georgia which has had its first murder in a decade. Our two main characters, each presented to the audience as likely suspects with something suspicious to hide, are the local investigator (Jon Bernthal) and his estranged wife (Tessa Thompson) attempting to jumpstart her career after a year off following some kind of tragedy and breakdown.
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