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Independence Day (1996)

May 16, 2026

Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…

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Escape from New York (1981)

May 16, 2026

Escape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.

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Yes Man (2008)

May 16, 2026

Carrey plays Carl Allen, a Bank of America loan officer in Los Angeles whose life has shrunk into avoidance after his divorce. The premise is the structure.

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Bad Teacher (2011)

May 16, 2026

Bad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.

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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Review

May 15, 2026

Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best American thrillers of the past fifteen years and one of the most controversial mainstream films of the post-2001 perio. She became the first woman to win that award.

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You’ve Got Mail (1998) Review

May 15, 2026

Nora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Review

May 15, 2026

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantial technical achievements in animated cinema history. Robert Zemeckis had directed Romancing the Stone in 1984 and Back to the Future…

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The Moneychangers (1976) Review

May 15, 2026

The Moneychangers is one of the substantial American television miniseries productions of the 1970s and one of the more substantive adaptations of Arthur. The miniseries format had been substantially developed across the 1970s American television production.

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