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  They Live (1988) RELEASED November 23, 1988 RUNTIME 94 mins  DIRECTOR  John Carpenter   WRITERS John Carpenter (screenplay),  Ray Nelson (novel) STARS  Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE English STUDIOS Universal Pictures,  Alive Films, Larry Franco Productions GENRES Science Fiction, Action Streaming on: Peacock The plot: You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong. Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from t...

  The Hunger Games (2012) RELEASED March 23, 2012 RUNTIME 142 mins DIRECTOR Gary Ross  WRITERS Suzanne Collins (novel), Billy Ray (screenplay), Gary Ross (screenplay)  STARS Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE English  STUDIOS Lionsgate, Color Force  GENRES Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction Streaming on: imdbTV, TubiTV, Freeform, Fubo, Sling The plot: Jennifer Lawrence takes her little sister's place in a Battle Royale, a circus if you will, dictated by a place in Panem, Latin for "bread". Roman names are bastardized to underline the fact that humans always have been and always will be raging dickbags. Random observations:  It's super easy to sing "I want my MTV" to the underlying score and I highly recommend you do so. Emphasis on "high"ly. We've got a Wilhelm Scream when Katniss cuts off the tree branch with the tracker-jackers. Danny Elfman was the original composer for The Hunger Games, but du...