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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

When a young man becomes the target of a malevolent entity, he must uncover its true intentions before it takes complete control of him. Tags: Storyline: (at around 4 mins) According to an interview with Jorge Diaz, when he did his scene where his character Hector performs a stunt on a laundry basket, he was supposed to glide down the stairs fast. However, the basket (supported with wire to pull it down the stairs, along with a skateboard underneath the basket, its wheels removed) often got stuck between in the steps. Finally on the last take, a member of the crew yanked the cable, which brought down the basket and actor to the bottom of the stairs; eliciting Diaz's genuine reaction. This last take was used in the final film.

Coherence

Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead. Tags: Storyline: Relying on a low budget of $50K, the movie was shot over five nights in a single location with dialogue that was largely improvised.

The Relic

After a mysterious cargo ship arrives in Chicago with its crew brutally slaughtered, Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at the Museum of Natural History, begins to investigate the gruesome killings. She discovers that the ship was carrying ancient artifacts from the Amazon, including a crate of leaves contaminated with a powerful, mind-altering fungus. Unbeknownst to her, one of the artifacts is a Kothoga, a mythical beast from the Amazon, which has mutated into a terrifying creature due to the fungus and a lack of the specific brain matter it needs to survive. As the museum prepares for a major exhibition, the Kothoga escapes, systematically hunting and decapitating people to consume their hypothalamic glands, which contain the necessary genetic material to complete its transformation. Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, a skeptical detective, joins Margo in a desperate attempt to stop the creature before it can wreak havoc on the public attending the museum's gala opening. They must navigate the museum's dark, labyrinthine halls, uncover the creature's weaknesses, and fight for their lives against the powerful and elusive monster.

Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality

The noted scholar, political and social analyst Noam Chomsky presents his critique of America's "War on Terror" with his support for the fact that such a "War" cannot exist. Tags: Storyline: Noam Chomsky: The US is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts they hire, you know, some jackals or something. The US hires terrorist *states*. We are big guys!

Once Upon a Time in the West

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Tags: Storyline: Henry Fonda originally turned down the role of Frank. Director Sergio Leone flew to the United States and met with Fonda, who asked why he was wanted for the film. Leone replied, "Picture this: the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera pans up to the gunman's face and...it's Henry Fonda" (until then, with one exception, Fonda had only been cast in "good guy" roles. Leone wanted the audience to be shocked).

Cherry 2000

In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his... Read all Tags: Storyline: In an interview done on set and published in Starlog 109 (cover date August 1986), Melanie Griffith reveals that she was pregnant with her first child when she tested for this movie. She was hired with a clause in her contract that if she did not have the baby by September 9, her role would be recast. Her son Alexander (with her then husband Steven Bauer) was born August 22, 1985, and Griffith started the film three weeks later, taking the boy along to the set each day to breastfeed him.

Die Hard

A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Tags: Storyline: The fictional Nakatomi Plaza is the headquarters of 20th Century Studios, so the studio could use one of its own buildings and didn't have to hold back on stunts and action sequences. While Jeb Stuart was writing the screenplay, he did a tour of the building, and immediately incorporated some of the locations and objects he found there into his script as set pieces (such as the cart that McClane and Karl end up riding during their fight). The company charged itself rent for the use of the then-unfinished building. Some of the middle floors were occupied by legal and administrative departments, so only empty floors were used for filming. Still, the filming of scenes that involved gunfire had to be postponed until after hours because some of the employees from the active floors started to complain about the noise.