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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and…
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young…
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions…
A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor. Director: Baz LuhrmannStars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton Wannahave a poster?…
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting. Director:…
Film version of Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business. Director: Mark Robson Stars: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul…
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man…
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Organization’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both…
Some of Sin City’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants. Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh…
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption. Directors: Frank Miller,…
A stoner – who is in fact a government agent – is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he’s too well-trained and too high for…
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Director: Robert Zemeckis Stars: Michael…
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold…
33. Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. “Stop!” cried the groaning old man at last, “Stop! I did not drag…
32. Where now? Who now? When now? —Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953; trans. Patrick Bowles) Part of my 100 Best First Lines from Novels project. First lines are…
31. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz) Part of my 100…
30. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. —William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) Part of my 100 Best First Lines from…
29. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. —Ha Jin, Waiting (1999) Part of my 100 Best First Lines from Novels project….
28. Mother died today. —Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942; trans. Stuart Gilbert) Part of my 100 Best First Lines from Novels project. First lines are powerful. It’s the…
27. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a…
26. 124 was spiteful. —Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) Part of my 100 Best First Lines from Novels project. First lines are powerful. It’s the author’s best chance to…
24. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for…