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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

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Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy named Elliot (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg’s reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.’s young friend, […]

True Blood: The Series

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Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, […]

Poltergeist

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Director Tobe Hooper teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. Because Poltergeist came out the same summer as Spielberg’s E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing […]

The Outer Limits: The Series

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From the moment Vic Perrin’s omniscient “Control Misused inventions, interplanetary communication, and warped time peculiarities permeate the 1960s science fiction anthology program The Outer Limits. Created by Leslie Stevens, the program gained a rabid cult following and influenced a myriad of sci-fi that would follow, including a second Outer Limits series in the 1990s. This […]