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Did WandaVision Explain the MCU’s Previous Recasts?
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This article contains WANDAVISION spoilers.
“She recast Pietro?!”
The vexing vicissitudes of WandaVision accomplished what was once unthinkable in the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Wanda’s long-deceased twin brother, Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver, appeared on her pseudo-sitcom doorstep with a franchise-altering twist, since it was Evan Peters’s quirky version of the speedster—from Fox’s X-Men movies—in lieu of the homegrown version played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Thusly, with one whooshing streak, the MCU might have installed the missing mutant half of its comic book ties. Yet, the change came with a plot-based explanation passable enough to make one wonder if it canonizes the MCU’s previous casting swaps.
While the implications that could result from Fox-grown X-Men characters getting grandfathered into the Marvel Studios-produced MCU are potent (and Deadpool-prominent), the understated narrative here is that the scene in question from WandaVision Episode 5, “On a Very Special Episode,” provided a monumentally meta moment from Kat Dennings’s Darcy Lewis, who blurted outloud the aforementioned question that we as the audience—who are watching the show’s SWORD audience watch the show within a show—were all asking ourselves about the recasting of Pietro. In doing so, she provided the MCU the first canonical acknowledgement of one of its recastings; a moment that could bear implications—of a retroactive variety—it is own right.  
Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, who first made impact in the MCU—by way of an introduction in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s mid-credits teaser a year earlier—in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, was introduced alongside twin brother Pietro as young Sokovian HYDRA operatives who were manipulated into being experimented on by Wolfgang von Strucker with Loki’s scepter—specifically the Mind Stone it housed—which bestowed Wanda telekinesis and telepathic manipulation and Pietro super-speed. That backstory, however, was a workaround from the pre-Disney-acquisition movie rights to their traditional status as mutants who debuted in the pages of X-Men, a Marvel property whose film rights were held by Fox in a dynamic that limited how the MCU could portray those characters, and even forbade usage of the very term, “mutant.”
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Therein lies the surreal nature of Pietro’s arrival on the series, since Peters’ version is not only a member of the heretofore MCU-forbidden species, but is—as he learned in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse—the son of an intrinsically-X-men character in Magneto. Yet, we’re still not quite privy to the nature of Wanda’s bizarre sitcom fiefdom, only with a vague scientific explanation that she’s controlling CMBR (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation) to manipulate reality within the confines of the Westview anomaly. Thus, while this newcomer clearly looks like the Pietro from the Fox movies, his new existence—akin to rapidly-growing twin sons Tommy and Billy—connects to this proverbial matrix.
Yet, Wanda didn’t simply conjure the Pietro she knew (Taylor-Johnson’s Age of Ultron version), and was genuinely surprised by him, which seems to indicate that she’s losing control of the phenomenon, and may have unwittingly yanked X-Men Pietro from the multiverse, a concept that could figure prominently when she appears in upcoming movie sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Moreover, the fact that Darcy—who was monitoring the scene from outside the anomaly—actually understood that this wasn’t MCU Pietro might just indicate that the reality-altering effects of the event are being contained within Westview… at least for now.   
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Consequently, by the time WandaVision reaches the inevitable moment in which Westview—Wanda’s reverse Faraday cage of sorts—collapses, the barrier containing her hex-powered quantum alterations would, theoretically, no longer protect the outside world from its distributive effects on the timeline. Thus, in a manner akin to Marvel Comics’ House of M storyline, Wanda could not only end up reshaping the reality of the present, but the past as well; an event that could (emphasis on “could,”) eventually be used to canonically reconcile the various aesthetically unpleasing inconsistencies we’ve seen across the MCU, most notably the instances in which major characters were recast. As we saw with DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths (both the comic storyline and the CW television event), changes to the ever-fragile timeline often leads to the creation of people who, for all intents and purposes, are the same person, but are physically different, perhaps due to timeline variables connected to their conception. Therefore, (just as the title indicates), this initially-unassuming Disney+ television vehicle might just end up providing an invaluable plot-driven explanation for the MCU’s recastings!   
Of course, the conventional industry move of recasting characters—a practice long-associated with sitcoms and soap operas—is hardly a new concept to the MCU, and even goes back to 2008 launcher Iron Man, in which Terrence Howard played James Rhodes (complete with an auspicious War Machine teaser moment), until the specter of studio politics and star-power-centric wage disputes led to an acrimonious exit. He was abruptly recast for 2010’s Iron Man 2 with Don Cheadle, who has been fielding the part ever since across the MCU’s lucratively groundbreaking moments, and will apparently do so again with an appearance on March-scheduled series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Moreover, the MCU’s 2008 sophomore effort, The Incredible Hulk, saw its A-list headliner, Edward Norton, recast with Mark Ruffalo for 2012 megamovie The Avengers, and, like Cheadle, he has reaped the wanton benefits with successful reprisals ever since.
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Hugo Weaving also put in a spectacular villain performance as the Red Skull in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, but eventually soured on Marvel, leading to an uncannily evocative Red Skull performance by Ross Marquand in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. The list goes on with the original Thor’s Fandral, Josh Dallas, who would be recast in the 2013 sequel by (eventual Shazam star) Zachary Levi, and—in a recent development—Emma Fuhrmann saw her Avengers: Endgame role as a teenage Cassie Lang (minor as it may have been,) slip away, with Kathryn Newton having been cast as Cassie for 2022-scheduled sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. One could even point to the MCU’s ultimate big bad, Thanos, as a tangential example, since he was first played by Damion Poitier (sans lines), seen in The Avengers’ mid-credits scene, only to have Josh Brolin take over the role two years later, starting with the mid-credits scene of 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which yielded iconic results in subsequent MCU efforts.   
Accordingly, while the reality-altered WandaVision originally seemed like a bizarre, artfully-indulgent way to launch Phase Four of the MCU, it might just end up being the perfect vehicle to not only neatly reconcile the canonical contradictions that have existed (the recastings), but also handle the array of unfathomable game-changers on the horizon now that the X-Men (and Fantastic Four) side of the Marvel Comics mythos is on a collision course with the once-insular 13-year-old Marvel Studios multimedia franchise.  
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I know you mentioned that Bill wasn't included in ILM because you didn't know much about his personality. Out of curiosity though, if you had included him in the fic, how would you have integrated his history of being in the middle of a zombie apocalypse that couldn't have happened for the other characters? Or like, what approach would you have gone with?
Oh this is kind of a tough one! I don’t know Bill well, because I haven’t played Left 4 Dead, but that actually wasn’t why he isn’t in the fic. I stopped including survivors after Jane Romero, because DbD updates so much that I hit a point it was either add more characters but know you won’t have time to develop them and give them the character arcs they deserve because you’re nearing the end, or stop adding people, and it’s always better to whole-ass less then half-ass more—especially with characters that are awesome and really deserve some due diligence. While Bill is actually one of the earliest survivors released for DbD (he was...siiixth or something? Like right after Ace? Or Nea?), that’s only for PC. On PS4 and Xbox, he wasn’t added until much later, and I play DbD on PS4. So, for me as a player, Bill wasn’t actually released until after Ash was. When I started writing, I was kind of vaguely aware he existed on PC? But I had 0 personal experience with him, and so I went with my own/console experience when it came to writing.
As for what I’d have done, that’s a dang good question, and I’m not entirely sure— I’d definitely have thought about it longer if I had included him, but I’ll give you what I think I would have done? Obviously, Bill’s not from the world the rest of the survivors are. While almost any of the stories can coexist with minimal changes (NOES 2010, Halloween, Stranger Things, even Ash are more or less fairly easily compatible), zombie apocalypse—couple things I know they’re bound to notice, ya know? Still, I stand by multiverse being both unnecessary and not the best decision for the story I want to tell, so what I think I’d have done is this: (under the cut bc it’s gonna be long af--get ready for some quantum theory lol)
Okay, so the Entity canonically can operate outside of natural time. Meaning it can take survivors from earlier or later, and isn’t on the same space-time fixed relationship the world is. Now, time travel is tricky. Or anything with a complex portrayal of time. But there are three basic setups for time travel potential that actually make sense. They are as follows:
Anything that will happen, has happened (or the Artemis Fowl timetheory). This one is pretty straightforward. Sure, you can travel through time, but the universe you live in right now where you are choosing to go back is the result of the past you caused. The change you’re causing is past-tense already, and the only real agency you have is in causing the circumstances leading up to where you already are. This still allows for some fancy manuvering (for example: want to save a friend’s life? No problem. You can’t remove the motivation to go back, so you in the past still have to believe they die, but so long as you didn’t like, hold their severed head—if it’s a situation like say, you saw them blow up, you can save that person—you just have to make sure your past self still sees them “die” in the explosion and thus chooses, as you did/are, to go back.) This is my personal least favorite theory of space-time, but it’s a solid one.
The second is the The Future is not Set (or the Back to the Future timetheory). This one says time is flexible. You can go back and kill your father before you’re born, and the future will change. How ripple effects happen are varried—for example in strict timeline variations of this theory such as those in Frequency or Back to the Future, if you cause yourself not to be born, time will catch up with you, and while the impact you left on the world remains, you, as you no longer are born, will vanish from existence as the time stream corrects itself. However, more lenient time streams such as the versions in Continuum or Futurama exist as well, where even if your effects on the world prevent you from being born, the version of you currently alive continues to exist as an anomaly. This is by far, in my opinion, the most enjoyable solid timetheory.
And last (unless you count Time Travel is Impossible as a solid theory which I guess technically you can??), theory three (or the Doctor Who timetheory). This theory portrays time as possible to change and allowing for alternatives to be taken, but not in all places and ways. It presents very hard limits on what can change, and offers a much more inflexible time continuum than theory 2, as well as much higher consequences for causing alterations. Rather than direct cause-effect consequences, like vanishing because you caused yourself not to be born, usually the result of tampering and causing a change of large size is that you will create time paradoxes, which the time stream itself desperately will try to destroy/fix, usually horribly and with massive and brutal force. Things like Life is Strange fall into this theory as well, with Dr. Who being on the lenient end of this spectrum and LIS the strict. It offers the technicality of a changeable future, but none of the true and almost wild freedom offered by variations of theory 2. Basically, any large scale or personal change you cause will rip holes in the universe, and either you will give in to fate and re-allow the loved one you saved to die, or you push on through and accept massive time-space damage and casualties for the choice. I’ve got mixed feelings on this one myself, as I’ve seen it handled super well and made a thing that can be fun, but it also is the theory that pisses me off the most when written poorly haha.
Anyway, massive time theory talk over, in Dead by Daylight, the Entity can traverse time canonically. In ILM, the survivors only talk briefly, after meeting Jane, about theories for how that works, but here is what I would say if ILM had included Bill. To preface, there are two timelines that each follow the same set of basic rules, but have a little freedom in how they effect each other (not so much in how they effect themselves): the Survivor’s world/reality timeline, and the Entity’s pocket dimension timeline. Neither timeline can contradict itself and create paradoxes within its own space. So. Bill is from the same universe as anyone else. At one point, the early 2000s followed the narrative of Left 4 Dead, and the Entity grabbed Bill where & when he “dies” in canon. Only, some time after grabbing Bill, the Entity took another person which (completely unintentionally on the Entity’s part) triggered a massive Buttery Effect on the world, and greatly altered reality, causing not only the Left 4 Dead apocalypse to no longer occur, but causing Bill himself to never be born. Bill however was already outside of the world and in the Entity’s pocket dimension at the time, and thus was not there to be “erased” and exists as an anomaly. While he is paradoxical in his own world, he does not at all contradict the Entity’s established timeline—he adheres to it. While the memory of survivors is effected and updated by changes made in reality by the Entity, because there is no version of “Bill” in the world anymore, he did not have his memories altered (there was no “Bill” for the timestream to update at all, as he is entirely an anomaly now, so it would have no reason to try). The world they exist in has a time continuum that operates off a variation somewhere between theory 3 and theory 2 (the future is not set, but also there are fix points—however, these almost exclusively exist in regard to one’s own past. The big rule is that personally making the act of altering your own past intentionally by nature also alters your motivations for acting in the first place, and thus negates the possibility of you doing so. While you can change other people’s pasts, or accidentally effect your own, you physically cannot change your own intentionally, because you’d create either a paradox or a time loop, and it would rip you apart).
Dwight is more or less correct when he hypothesizes that they might have all remembered a world with Jane Romero still in it until an hour ago. However, all of ILM itself is that version of time/reality (ie the “last” or “final” version, as it were/the version that came into being when Jane was taken). Her loss butterfly affect updated people, and so they remember her being missing. While the Entity could hypothetically someday accidentally do things that make it so survivors aren’t born in the external reality, it cannot do so intentionally or accidentally-on-purpose, because it is bound by the rules of its own personal history/timeline, and it can neither intentionally nor accidentally do a damn thing to prevent what has transpired inside itself from happening. Similarly, since the survivors are established as existing inside it, even if they were erased at birth, they would still exit it intact in November of 2019 with all their memories. The Entity thus has no real way to hurt them even in revenge, unless it is willing to risk taking them again from a later point in time. Most small decisions do not have buttery effects that are very large at all, and in general time attempts to smooth out with the least possible changes. What happened to Bill was a one in a billion fortunate/unfortunate chance thing, and was such an unlikely thing to happen in the first place, the chances of a thing like it happening again are astronomically small, and almost completely certainly would not to occur. In some ways it would be nice for him though, because he could escape back to a peaceful reality where many people he lost are still happy & living. While they don’t remember him, people would still have the echos of their past inside them (feelings of deja vu, memories in dreams, attachment and familiarity with people you never “met”) and he could reconnect with them if he wanted and live happily with old Left 4 Dead crew and his new survivor family. : )
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What do you think would be a good way to introduce Jenny Q in Rebirth? Sorry if you’ve already answered this in the past
oh boy, it's a complicated mess. wildstorm's jenny q and rebirth jenny q are so different in origins and ages they might be two different people entirely.
this is very long so its under the cut !!! and i apologize in advance if it doesnt make a lick of sense at all.
— wildstorm's ending:
the last time we've ever seen jenny q in wildstorm comics was during one of WS's last hurrah of a storyline called number of the beast, where we see her wrap her arms around the carrier's uncaged and dangerous powersource, the miniaturized universe.
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before that, it seems like the writers had already decided her fate by showing that very same scene in a comic that came out before notb; it was shown in midnighter: armageddon where midnighter traveled to the future and was told what happened to his daughter by none other than an older and more rough-looking apollo:
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we never saw her in wildstorm's comics after that, and she was only mentioned in passing a few times iirc.
— rebirth/n52:
jenny quantum appears in dc rebirth's stormwatch (2011), which is a complete reboot of the authority and some other wildstorm characters. it is nothing like the 90s-00s origins of the authority that we all know. in this reboot, jenny q ( full name jennifer emily quantum ) was raised by stormwatch in a space station and was never adopted by midnighter and apollo. she's a whole 12 years old in this reboot and was mentored mostly by martian manhunter and some other guy.
basically, to summarize the entire comic: it's bad in every way imaginable — not "shock value" bad ( although midnighter did try to kill jenny because he thought she was dangerous and she, in return, blackmails him so many times to "keep him in line" or some shit like that ) but still pretty fucking Bad. 
again: we never see her after this because for some reason, dc must really hate her for 1) killing / making her disappear without a trace in notb, 2) throwing her in comic limbo in rebirth.
— introducing her:
this may not make absolute sense so, again, i'm sorry about it.
jenny q saves the wildstorm universe and stops the world from ending by 1) stablizing the caged universe inside the carrier and thus not making it a danger to anyone, keeping the carrier away from earth so it doesnt crash land there; 2) banishing those responsible for the apocalypse to another dimension where they cannot and will not return no matter what. 
thus ensuring that the entire wildstorm universe still exists. up until the flashpoint event happens. that's when WS universe gets inducted into the dc multiverse. ( behind the scene fun fact: wildstorm was officially purchased by dc comics in 2010, and flashpoint happened year later, in 2011. ) mind you, jenny q is WS' most powerful character because she can literally manipulate reality at the very seams. so she can pretty much do anything she puts her mind and heart to.
that means WS universe exists but separately from the main continuity.
but by some cosmic mishap or another, the authority ( and all the other wildstorm characters that appeared in rebirth ) got stuck in dc's main continuity timeline, prime earth, and cannot go back to their own universe. so now the authority exists in the main timeline.
the team isnt defunct by any means necessary but they arent as together anymore, after years of living in prime earth. they come together sometimes when the need arises but other than that, shen and angie are happily together somewhere in the world, habib, apollo, midnighter, and jenny q are somewhere else. jack doesnt exist in this because i said so.
( steve orlando's midnighter + m&a still happens though because that's some very important character development !! )
so yeah, there ya have it !! my perfectly (in)coherent idea of how jenny q can exist in dc's main continuity !! ( and how you can have m and apollo in the continuity as well without fucking up their original backstories. )
dc wants what i have. ( i dont know where this puts the wild storm comic but that exists too, somehow in some way it does, dont question it. )
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Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror (1922) 🟢
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The Wicker Man (1973)
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1981
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Bloody Birthday (1981)
Saturday the 14th (1981) 🟢
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Chopping Mall (1986)
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Bloody New Year (1987)
The Lost Boys (1987)
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Heathers (1989)
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Bad Moon (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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Dead Silence
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Splinter (2008)
Jennifer's Body (2009)
2010
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
The Crazies
2011
The Cabin in the Woods
Super 8
Red Riding Hood
Priest
Contagion
2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Stitches
Would You Rather
American Mary 🟢
2013
World War Z
Warm Bodies
Horns
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2014
The Babadook
Cooties
Monsters: Dark Continent 🔴
As Above, So Below
I, Frankenstein
It Follows
The Taking of Deborah Logan
What We Do in the Shadows
2015
Most Likely To Die
Crimson Peak
The VVitch
Krampus
Black Swan
Bone Tomahawk
Green Room
2016
Hush
The Shallows
Bedeviled
Gantz: O
Better Watch Out
The Belko Experiment
2017
Red Christmas
little evil
Anna and the Apocalypse
Mayhem
Colossal
Cargo
Tragedy Girls
2018
The Clovehitch Killer
The Ritual
Bird Box
Hereditary
Annihilation
Hostile 🟢
The Meg
Mandy
Get Out
2019
Us
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
The Silence
Benny Loves You
Ready or Not
Midsommar
Blood Quantum
Bit
2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Antebellum
Sputnik
The Invisible Man
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The Hunt
Psycho Goreman
Underwater
The Superdeep
Freaky 🔴
12 Hour Shift
The Devil All The Time 🔴
Sightless
His House
Spree
2021
Malignant 🟢
Willy's Wonderland
Blood Red Sky
Smile
2022
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READING DE NACHT READING 2017
                                                            my favourite books of the year
my overall favourite book of the year:
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     david keenan “this is memorial device” [faber & faber] (2017)
POST-CYBERPUNKSTOMPF:
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01 nick harkaway "gnomon" (2017) 02 kim stanley robinson "new york 2140" (2017) 03 m john harrison "you should come with me" (2017) 04 gardner dozois (ed) "the year's best science fiction: thirty-fourth annual collection" (2017) 05 james morrow "the asylum of dr. caligari" (2017)
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06 annalee newitz "autonomous" (2017) 07 cory doctorow "walkaway" (2017) 08 dave hutchinson "acadia" (2017)   + dave hutchinson "slow companions" (2017) 09 ed finn (ed) visions, ventures, escape velocities: a collection of space futures" (2017) 10 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars" (2017)
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11 allan kaster "the year's top hard science fiction stories" (2017) 12 nina allen "the rift" (2017) 13 charles stross "the delirium brief" (2017) 14 simon morden "at the speed of light" (2017) 15 ada palmer "seven surrenders" (2017) & "the will to battle" (2017)
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16 yoon ha lee "raven stratagem" (2017) 17 john joseph adams (ed) "cosmic powers" (2017) 18 mur lafferty "six wakes" (2017) 19 taiyo fujii "orbital cloud" (2017) 20 andrew bannister "creation machine" (2016)     + andrew bannister "iron gods" (2017)
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21 gareth l powell "entropic angel & other stories" (2017) 22 ann leckie "provenance" (2017) 23 monica louzon (ed) "catalysts, explorers & secret keepers: women of sf" 24 ian mconald "wolf moon" (2017) 25 neal stephenson & nicole galland "the rise & fall of d.o.d.o." (2017)
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26 adam roberts "the real-town murders" (2017) 27 tim pratt "the wrong stars" (2017) 28 jim c. hines "terminal alliance" (2017) 29 charles stross "the empire games" (2017) 30 james s.a. corey "persepolis rising" (2017)     + james s.a. corey "strange dogs" (2017)
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31 allen steele "avengers of the moon (captain future)" (2017) 32 neal asher "infinity engine [transformation III]" (2017) 33 jason m. hough "injection burn" (2017)   + jason m. hough "escape velocity" (2017) 34 donna scott (ed) "best of british science fiction 2016"/una mccormack "star of the sea" (2016) 35 david marusek "upon this rock"/john scalzi "collapsing empire" (2017)
& a couple of re-readings: richard k. morgan "takeshi kovacs trilogy" in view of the coming netflix series and colin harvey "damage time" (2010) ... no further reason needed!
STOMPF KLASSIK:
01 matthew mcintosh "the mystery.doc" (2017)
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02 sébastien roger "les désordres du monde. walter benjamin à port-bou" (2017) 03 laurent binet "hhhh" (2012) 04 + laurent binet "the 7th function of language" (2017) 05 jean echenoz "special envoy" (2017)
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06 paul stanbridge "forbidden line" (2016) 07 ryu murakami "tokyo decadence (2016) 08 aifric campbell "the semantics of murder" (2008) 09 mark vernon "darker with the day" (2017) 10 magnus mills "the forensic records society" (2017)
GEDÄCHTNISSTOMPF:
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01 mckenzie wark "general intellects: 25 thinkers for the 21st century" (2017) 02 claude lefort "wat is politiek?" (2016) 03 ger groot & sam ijsseling "dankbaar en aandachtig" (2013) 04 martin heidegger "beiträge zur philosophie (vom ereignis)" (2003) 05 hannah arendt "totalitarisme" (2014)
06 daniel birnbaum & kim west "life on sirius: the situationist international & the exhibition of art" (2016) 07 ger groot "de geest is uit de fles" (2017) 08 sean gaston "the impossible mourning of jacques derrida" (2006) 09 bas heijne "onbehagen: nieuw licht op de beschaafde mens" (2016) 10 giorgio colli "ecrits sur nietzsche" (2017)
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11 frédéric neyrat "échapper à l'horreur" (2017) 12 slavoj zizek "against the double blackmail, refugees, terror & other troubles with the neighbours" (2017) 13 henning mankell "quicksand" (2016) 14 jacques rancière "en quel temps vivons-nous? conversations avec eric hazan" (2017) 15 alain badiou "je vous sais si nombreux... " (2017)
16 alain badou & jean-luc nancy "la tradition allemande dans la philosophie" (2017) 17 tom mccarthy "typewriters bombs jellyfish [essays]" (2017) 18 valeria luiselli "tell me how it ends: an essay in 40 questions" (2017) 19 fredric jameson "raymond chandler: the detections of totality" (2016) 20 umberto eco "chronicles of a liquid society" (2017)
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POLARSTOMPF:
01 chris petit "pale horse riding" (2017)   + chris petit "the butchers of berlin" (2016)   + chris petit "the human pool" (2002)   + chris petit "the psalm killer" (1996)
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02 john le carré "a legacy of spies" (2017) 03 david hewson "sleep baby sleep" (2017) 04 mick herron "slow horses" (2010)   + mick herron "dead lions" (2013)   + mick herron "the list" (2015)   + mick herron "real tigers" (2016)   + mick herron "spook street" (2017) 05 jussi adler-olsen "the scarred woman" (2017)
06 jo nesbo "the thirst" (2017) 07 ben fergusson "the spring of kasper meier" (2014) 08 e.o. chirovici "the book of mirrors" (2017) 09 toni coppers "de zaak magritte" (2017) 10 james r. tuck "mama tried (crime fiction inspired by outlaw country music)" (2016)
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YOUNGADULTSTOMPF:
01 philip pullman "la belle sauvage" (2017)
PLATTERSTOMPF:
01 cosey fanni tutti "art sex music" (2017) 02 david keenan "this is memorial device" (2017) 03 joanne demers "drone and apocalypse" (2015) 04 + joanne demers "listening through the noise" (2010) 05 robert barry "the music of the future" (2017)
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06 richard cabut & andrew gallix (eds) "punk is dead: modernity killed every night" (2017) 07 butt gavin, kodwo eshun, & mark fisher (eds) "post punk then and now" (2016)" 08 sandra garrido "why are we attracted to sad music" (2016) 09 tomas serrien "klank: een filsofie van de muzikale ervaring" (2017) 10 marlies de munck "waarom chopin de regen niet wilde horen" (2017)
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11 daniel warner "live wires" (2017) 12 will carruthers "playing the bass with three left hands" (2016) 13 steve hanley "the big midweek-life inside the fall (2016) 14 tex perkins "tex" (2017) 15 mark lanegan "i am the wolf" (2017)
17 simon reynolds "shock & awe" (2016) 18 andrew o'neill "a history of heavy metal" (2017) 19 bryan ray turcotte "the fucked up reader" (2007) 10 bob batchelor (ed) "literary cash" (2017) 20 simon webb "a 1970s teenager. from bell-bottoms to disco dancing" (2013)
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         both bell-bottoms and disco dancing can be had @ muntpunt !
POESISSTOMPF:
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01 jonty tiplady "zam bonk dip" (2010) 02 murray lachlan young "how freakin' zeitgeist are you?" (2017)
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BILDERSTOMPF:
01 peter-andré bloch "sils-maria - "l'île bienheureuse" pour nietzsche" (2017)
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02 willem vanhuyse "atlas van de imaginaire verklaringen: het complete handboek vor de 'patafysicus'" (2017) 03 reinhard kleist "nick cave: mercy on me" (2017) 04 william gibson "archangel (a graphic novel)" (2017) 05 a. uderzo, didier conrad & jean-yves ferri "astérix et la transitalique" (2017)
WISSENSCHAFTSTOMPF:
01 thibault damour & mathieu burniat "mysteries of the quantum universe" (2017) 02 brian cox & jeff forshaw "universal: a journey through the cosmos" (2017)
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HUMOURSTOMPF:
01 james acaster "james acaster's classic scrapes" (2017)
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02 chris wade “the story of derek and clive” (2017)
CYCLOSTOMPF:
01 frederik bakelandt "grinta! de bergen: 10 legendarsche wielercols" (2017)
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02 lucien van impe & filip osselaer "de dag dat ik de tour verloor" (2017) 03 jonas heyerick & jelle vermeersch "bahamontes #17-#20" (2017) 04 frank strack "the hardmen: legends of the cycling gods" (2017) 05 matthias m. r. declercq "de val" (2017)
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… tsundoku !
may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!
the TBR pile grew with...
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lászló krasznahorkai "the world goes on" (2017) samanta schweblin "fever dream" (2017)
peter mark, peter helman & penny snyder (eds) "the mountains in art history" (2017)
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alvin lucier (ed) "eight lectures on experimental music" (2017) rhian e jones & eli davies "under my thumb: songs that hate women and the women who love them" (2017)
arne dahl "watching you" (2017) philip kerr "prussian blue" (2017) antti tuomainen "the man who died" (2017) jon michelet "the frozen women" (2017) nicolás obregón "blue light yokohama" (2017)
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alex lamb "exodus" (2017) c robert cargill "sea of rust" (2017) chris brookmyre "places in the darkness" (2017) d nolan clark "forgotten worlds" & "forbidden suns" (2017) dan moren "the caledonian gambit" (2017) elizabeth moon "cold welcome" (2017) ferrett steinmetz "the uploaded" (2017) greg egan "dichronauts" (2017) ian whates "the ion raider" (2017) jaine fenn "the martian job" (2017) jamie sawyer "pariah" (2017)
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jeff noon "a man of shadows" (2017) joe m mcdermott "the fortress at the end of time" (2017) joe zieja "communication failure" (2017) john kessel "the moon and the other" (2017) john meaney "destructor function" (2017) jonathan strahan (ed) "best sf &f of the year vol 11" & "infinity wars" (2017) kameron hurley "the stars are legion" (2017) kay kenyon "at the table of wolves" (2017) malka older "null states" (2017) marina j. lostetter "noumenon" (2017)
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martha wells "all systems red" (2017) neil clark (ed) "galactic empires" & "more human than human" (2017) paul mcauley "austral" (2017) r.e. stearns "barbary station" (2017) robert kroese "last iota" (2017) sage walker "the man in a tree" (2017) stephen baxter "obelisk" (2017) + stephen baxter "the massacre of mankind" (2017) sulari gentill "crossing the lines" (2017) the justified ancients of mu mu “2023 a trilogy” (2017) wendy n. wagner "an oath of dogs" (2017)
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Zombies became overplayed in the 2010s, with filmmakers finer recycling what George Romero did decades earlier. To accomplish affairs worse, The Walking Asleep array of sanitized the subgenre into article affiliated to ancestors viewing. Zombies became safe. And aback they’re not safe, they are, as apparent in this year’s abominable direct-to-digital blur Corona Zombies, the punchline of a bad joke.
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Every film i've seen in cinema.  I may be missing some other re-releases..can't remember..
Included are year release or year i saw them and amount i saw that year so i dont have to keep counting each year. 
Re releases - 3 Terminator The thing Jurassic park 1993 - 2 The aristacats Free willy 1994 - 3 Flintstones Lion king Jungle book 1995 - 4 Casper Batman forever Pocahontas Toy story 1996 - 3 Muppet treasure island Flipper Space jam 1997 - 5 Lost world jurassic park Batman and robin Hercules Men in black Flubber 1998 - 8 Barney Godzilla Mulan Dr dolittle Small soldiers Antz Mighty joe young Bugs life 1999 - 5 Phantom menace Tarzan Pokemon Toy story 2 Stuart little 2000 - 8 Dinosaur Chicken run X-men Pokemon 2000 Space cowboys The grinch Emperors new groove Snow day 2001 - 13 Recess Just visiting Mummy returns Tomb raider Dr dolittle 2 AI Cats and dogs Jurassic park 3 Planet of the apes Harry potter Philosophers stone Behind enemy lines Lord of the rings Fellowship of the ring Pearl harbour 2002 -13 Count of monte cristo Time machine Scorpion king Spider man Star wars Attack of the clones Bourne identity Minority report Men in black 2 Reign of fire Xxx Harry potter chamber of secrets Die another day Lord of the ringsTwo towers 2003 - 7 Xmen 2 Terminator 3 Pirates of the caribbean League of extraordinary gentlemen Johnny english Tomb raider 2 Lord of the rings Return of the king 2004 - 5 Van helsing Harry potter Prisoner of azkaban King arthur I, robot The village 2005 - 8 Star wars Revenge of the sith Batman begins War of the worlds Fantastic 4 Charlie and the chocolate factory The island Harry Potter Goblet of fire King kong 2006 - 5 V for vendetta Scary movie 4 Xmen 3 Pirates of the caribbean dead mans chest  Casino royale 2007 - 10 Tmnt Spiderman 3 Pirates of the caribbean at worlds end  Die hard 4 Harry potter Order of the phoenix Simpsons movie Rush hour 3 Shoot em up American gangster I am legend 2008 - 13 Avp requiem Rambo 4 Iron man Indiana jones kingdom of the crystal skull Wanted Journey to the center of the earth The dark knight Mummy 3 How to lose friends and alienate people Quantum of solace Yes man Defiance Let the right one in 2009 - 21 Valkyrie Underworld 3 Friday the 13th Watchmen Adventureland Wolverine origins Star trek Angels and demons Terminator 4 Transformers 2 Drag me to hell Public enemies Harry potter Half blood prince District 9 Inglorious basterds Pandorum Zombieland Law abiding citizen Fourth kind 2012 Sherlock holmes 2010 - 25 Daybreakers Wolfman Shutter island Clash of the titans Kick ass 4321 Elm street Harry brown Iron man 2 Robin hood Shrek 4 Prince of persia The a team Predators Inception Salt Expendables Scott pilgrim Resi evil afterlife Devil Let me in Red Four lions Harry potter Deathly hallows 1 Faster 2011 - 15 Paul Sucker punch Scream 4 Thor Pirates of the caribbean strangers tide  Xmen first class Transformers 3 Harry potter Deathly hallows 2 Captain america Cowboys snd aliens Rise of the planet of the apes Fright night Tintin Mission impossible 4 Sherlock holmes 2 2012 - 9 The avengers Prometheus Ted Amazing spider man Dark knight rises Looper Skyfall Wreck it ralph Hobbit 2013 - 10 Django unchained Die hard 5 Oz Olympus has fallen Evil dead Star trek into darkness Man of steel Escape plan Thor 2 Hobbit 2 2014 - 16 Robocop Winter soldier Amazin spiderman 2 The other woman Godzilla Xmen dofp Maleficent 22 jump street Transformers 4 Dawn of the planet of the apes Guatdians of the galaxy Ninja turtles Imitation game Fury Hobbit 3 Babadook 2015 - 7 Mad max fury road Jurassic world Terminator 5 Ted 2 Ant man Spectre Force awakens 2016 - 13 10 cloverfield lane Bvs Cap 3 Jungle book Huntsman Xmen apocalypse Ninja turtles 2 Tarzan Star trek beyond Suicide squad Doctor strange Fantastic beasts Star wars Rogue one 2017 - Assassins creed Xxx 3 Lego batman Logan Kong Skull Island
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The Best Xbox One Games (April 2020)
The Xbox One might not have the same selection of exclusives as the PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch, but the handful it does have is worth checking out. Some of the best Xbox One games are first-party titles, but you’ll find loads of other quality games from the likes of Electronic Arts, Bethesda, and Ubisoft that comprise a huge library of games worth playing. In addition, many of them look the best on Xbox with the power of the Xbox One X.
Thanks to a strong lineup of shooters and racing games, fans of those genres needn’t look any further than Microsoft’s Xbox. It also boasts many great platformers you aren’t going to find on other consoles. Whether you’re looking for a lengthy single-player game with a great story or an online world to get lost in with friends, there is something for you.
From Control to Rocket League, these are our picks for the best Xbox One games.
Here’s a quick-jump menu if you’re looking for a specific genre:
Action
Darksiders Genesis
The other three Horseman of the Apocalypse use melee weapons in the Darksiders universe, but Strife prefers his handguns. In the prequel game Darksiders Genesis, developer Airship Syndicate turned the series into an isometric dungeon-crawler, and Strife’s attacks are reminiscent of twin-stick shooters. He’s joined by the melee-focused War, and the two can swap at any time when playing solo.
Darksiders Genesis ditched the open-ended design of the main series for mission-based stages, but they’re stuffed with secret collectibles and new abilities that make it imperative to replay missions. Numerous difficulty levels and unlockable areas ensure it won’t wear out its welcome.
Control
Remedy Entertainment fans got a taste of the studio’s potential with the Xbox One game Quantum Break, but Control is a much more refined take on the third-person shooter genre. Set in the morphing headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Control, Control is a “paranatural” mystery that starts weird and only gets weirder.
As protagonist Jesse Faden, you’re given the role of director upon your entry and must work to purge the Hiss enemies from the Bureau. You do this with the help of your unique superpowered abilities, which include telekinesis and mind control. Alongside these, you have the Service Weapon, a unique handgun that shifts forms and functions like a shotgun or even a machine gun. It makes Control’s combat satisfying and encourages experimentation.
Read our full Control review
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
From Software had the option to release another Dark Souls game. Instead, the legendary studio created an entirely new franchise with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This action game takes plenty of inspiration from Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but the addition of a Posture system for deflecting attacks — along with a resurrection mechanic — help make it feel like a distinct game in its own right.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is ludicrously difficult, which could turn off From Software newcomers. Those who have the time and patience to battle through its boss fights, however, will find one of the most rewarding and addicting action games of the generation. The pain is good, and we want more.
Read our full Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice review
Devil May Cry 5
After taking a darker direction with DmC from Ninja Theory (more on that developer in a bit) back in 2013, the original series returns with Devil May Cry 5. Set after the events of the four other games, Devil May Cry 5 puts you in control of three different characters, each with unique weapons and abilities to master. Nero’s brutality contrasts Dante’s flashiness, and both are about as different from V’s demon-spawning style as possible.
Devil May Cry 5 feels like the perfect blend of old and new, with a gorgeous engine making it one of the prettiest games on the Xbox One. It hasn’t lost the series’ challenge, however, and a second run on Son of Sparda difficulty mixes up the enemy variety to put your skills to the test.
Ashen
From Software’s excellent action-role-playing game Bloodborne isn’t available on the Xbox One. Instead, owners get their own Souls-like game in the form of Ashen. Like the best games in the genre, Ashen forces players to think tactically as they approach situations, dodging and carefully choosing their attacks to avoid being overwhelmed. Stamina must be preserved, and the game’s dreary and gray color scheme only gets you in the mood to kill.
Where Ashen differs from its competition, however, is in its watercolor-like art style. Characters in the games don’t have faces, almost like you’re trying to remember who you saw in a dream, giving the game a surreal feeling. It also supports a passive multiplayer component, where you can choose to cooperate with other players or force them to continue alone.
Gears 5
The Coalition outdid itself with Gears 5, a third-person shooter that improves on its predecessor in nearly every way. Combat feels just as perfect as ever, with intense shootouts against both Swarm and robotic DeeBees. More open-ended areas feature side missions that add additional context to the game’s world.
Gears 5 is one of the best games in the entire series, with psychological horror elements sprinkled throughout its story and a tremendous selection of cooperative modes. The new Escape game mode is great for aggressive players, and the competitive multiplayer doesn’t change what was already nearly perfect.
Read our full Gears 5 review
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Although the story remains the main draw for the Metal Gear franchise, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain trades lengthy cutscenes and monologues for open-world gameplay that provides countless ways to approach any mission. Tranquilizers, sniper rifles, shotguns, a remote-controlled robot arm; all this and more is available, giving the game an endless sense of replay value.
After completing a mission using a stealthy, nonlethal approach, one may feel the urge to replay the same mission, marching into an enemy outpost with a machine gun and a rocket launcher to burn the whole thing down. Few games encourage experimentation like MGSV.
Despite some questionable narrative choices, MGSV is a powerful ending to one of gaming’s most important franchises, setting a new bar for open-world gameplay.
Grand Theft Auto V
The most commercially successful video game — or media product — of all time, Grand Theft Auto V deserves its popularity. The open-world criminal action game builds on what Rockstar Games has done well for decades, with a staggering number of side activities to complete and locations to visit.
Its three-protagonist main story is both emotional and hilarious, with the psychopathic Trevor often stealing the show with his violent and over-the-top outbursts. It only gets better when you enter Grand Theft Auto Online, which allows you to gain influence in Los Santos and show the world why you deserve respect.
Despite being nearly five years old, the game continues to get new content updates. We anticipate it will live on for at least another five years.
Read our full Grand Theft Auto V review
Nier: Automata
Nier: Automata/Square Enix
A stunningly well-realized version of auteur director Yoko Taro’s vision, Nier: Automata is a depressing and existential action game that avoids many of the narrative traps associated with android stories. There are no questions regarding what it means to be human, but rather what it means to be yourself. Protagonists 2B and 9S struggle to accept reality, making for some of the most emotional moments we’ve ever experienced in a game.
With Platinum Games handling the combat, it’s also a flashy and tight action game complete with twin-stick shooter segments to break up the monotony.
Read our full Nier: Automata review
Sunset Overdrive
Sometimes games don’t have to be anything other than fun, and Insomniac Games demonstrates that perfectly with the Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive. Mixing the goofy third-person shooting of the studio’s Ratchet & Clank series with the navigation of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater or Jet Grind Radio, Sunset Overdrive constantly has you on the move to build up your combo and take out more enemies.
Its silly anti-corporate story is certainly derivative, but it packs in plenty of hilarious characters and self-aware moments. Once you complete the main story, it’s an absolute blast to just soar around the city and find every secret.
Read our full Sunset Overdrive review
Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption 2/Rockstar
It’s rare that a AAA open-world game can surprise us, but Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 manages to do it regularly. The western is a prequel to the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption, but it is far more than a simple retread of that title’s themes.
As a member of the Van der Linde gang, protagonist Arthur Morgan must wrestle with his past and his uncertain future as the government hunts down the remaining outlaws in a rapidly changing Wild West locale.
Every story mission is absolute gold, never falling into a pattern of repetition. The emergent activities you’ll discover in the open world are engaging enough to keep you busy for hours. Want to cause chaos or just hunt game? You totally can, or you could try your luck at a few hands of poker. It’s also available on Xbox Game Pass, sweetening the deal for the subscription service.
Read our full Red Dead Redemption 2 review
Action-adventure
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order isn’t exactly the most original or innovative game we’ve played. It’s a blend of elements from big-name game franchises like Uncharted and Dark Souls, but with all the classic Star Wars tropes. Despite this, it excels because it so smartly pulls mechanics and structural pieces that fit the Star Wars formula well.
Split between exploration, puzzle-solving, and combat, Fallen Order never feels like it’s wasting your time. When you finally get protagonist Cal Kestis outfitted with his best Force powers and a customizable lightsaber, he feels like an unstoppable warrior who can take on waves of Stormtroopers without issue.
With brilliant performances and a mesmerizing score, you have one of the best Star Wars games since BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic series.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the finale to the trilogy that began with the Tomb Raider reboot in 2013. It builds on everything the previous games did and more, highlighting the Lara Croft we know and love who finally ditches fear for total confidence. It’s packed full of engaging combat, fun environmental puzzles, and moving cinematics.
Given this is the third installment, you should play the also excellent Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider before diving into the shadows.
Read our Shadow of the Tomb Raider review
Sea of Thieves
If you ever wanted to sail the treacherous seas roleplaying as a pirate with a group of your friends, Sea of Thieves is the Xbox One game for you. Embark on voyages, discover treasure, raid enemy ships, customize your rig, and be the best scallywag this side of the sea has ever seen!
Sea of Thieves feels like a lighthearted pirate simulator. You and your friends go on adventures but also work together to accomplish menial things like putting up the ship’s sails and navigating through dangerous waters. The best part? The entire game is cross-platform, so you can play with your friends on PC. Over time, it has grown into a respectable online service game with more content to pursue than ever before, despite its really rough launch. 
Survival Horror
Resident Evil 3 Remake
Resident Evil 2 Remake raised the bar for what a remake could be when it released in 2019. Just a year later and Capcom wowed fans of the series again with its follow-up in the form of Resident Evil 3 Remake. This iteration takes place right around the same time as Leon and Claire’s tale in the previous game, but with Jill Valentine returning as the main character.
The same survival horror elements are all here as players have to contend with limited resources and terrifying creatures that are stalking the gorgeously-rendered streets of Raccoon City. That isn’t even taking into account the relentless, gruesome Nemesis who stalks you with some serious firepower. With a bit more action thrown into the mix, you can’t go wrong playing this terrific remake.
Read our Resident Evil 3 Remake review 
Fighting
Mortal Kombat 11
Some game franchises suffer from fatigue after their first few entries, with later games paling in comparison to the originals. NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat is not one of those series.
Mortal Kombat 11 is a fighting game designed by masters of the genre. It offers brutal and complex combat while also including tutorial and practice systems so newcomers can enjoy the game. The addition of the Fatal Blow system makes every second of a fight suspenseful, even if one player has a huge advantage. Not to mention,the infamous Fatalities are gorier than ever.
Mortal Kombat 11 is also, hands down, one of the prettiest games on the Xbox One. Animations — both for faces and attacks — are stunning, and there’s a sense of fluidity that we rarely see outside of NetherRealm’s work. With a ton of different modes to choose from and an over-the-top story to play through, Mortal Kombat 11 is well worth the price of admission.
Read our full Mortal Kombat 11 review
Dragon Ball FighterZ
There have been dozens of Dragon Ball Z games produced over the years, and nearly all of them are poor or just decent at best. Arc System Works managed to not only set a new standard for the series with Dragon Ball FighterZ, but it also managed to create one of the best fighting games of all time.
The tag-team fights look like they were pulled directly from the anime, with crisp animation and all the classic series attacks you can think of. But FighterZ is also one of the most accessible fighting games around. Even someone who has never played a fighting game can get the hang of it quickly, but its remarkable depth has made it the new favorite of the fighting game community.
Read our full Dragon Ball FighterZ review
First-person shooters
Borderlands 3
Few first-person shooter franchises are as big as Borderlands, and its numbers-based approach — as well as its heavy emphasis on looting new weapons — helped to make it a hit for shooter fans and role-playing fans alike. Never before had a game felt like Diablo with guns, and Borderlands 3 delivers on the all-out action, goofy humor, and bizarre characters we’ve come to expect from the series. Gearbox didn’t reinvent the formula after all these years, but the studio didn’t need to.
Borderlands 3 also greatly expands the scope of the series, taking it from just the planet Pandora to several other locations. The variety helps make the game feel fresh without losing what made the series so beloved in the first place.
Metro Exodus
The Metro series breaks from the trend of most post-apocalyptic shooters’ “fun during the end of the world” themes for a bleak and borderline nihilistic story that underscores the horror of nuclear war. Metro Exodus, the third game in the series, is 4A Games’ most ambitious project, moving much of the action out of the titular subway system and onto a diverse landscape filled with various mixes of sand, trees, and snow.
It remains Metro at its heart, however, with scavenging and resource management still crucial as protagonist Artyom braves the game’s hostile environments. The focus on gear customization also allows you to approach combat in whatever way you see fit, including pure stealth or guns blazing action. There isn’t a correct option for these encounters and the dangers you encounter while moving to the next objective can often result in your plan going down the drain before it begins.
Read our full Metro Exodus review
Halo 5: Guardians
343 Industries wasn’t content to deliver exactly what fans expected in Halo 5: Guardians. Longtime protagonist Master Chief largely takes a backseat to newcomer Spartan Locke on an adventure that hops across multiple planets and features a favorite supporting character in a very different role.
It’s a gorgeous game full of jaw-dropping moments, but multiplayer is where Halo 5 really shines. Between the classic arena competitive matches and the large-scale Warzone mode, there’s enough content in Halo 5 to keep you fragging your friends for months or even years on end.
Read our full Halo 5 review
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is the perfect introduction for Xbox One owners new to Microsoft’s console family. Containing the first four numbered games in the series — as well as their prequel, Halo: Reach — it’s enough content to keep you busy for weeks and months on end. Halo 2: Anniversary is a highlight of this package, a remastered classic with new cinematics and sound effects, that even shows up Halo 5.
As you may have heard, Halo: The Master Chief Collection was a bit of a mess at launch, but the game’s server issues have stabilized. There are more than 100 maps to choose from, spanning from the original Halo to Halo 4. The majority are remastered versions of old favorites, but a select few were rebuilt from the ground up specifically for the collection. Of course, if you’re like us, you’ll be spending all your time blowing your friends up in Blood Gulch anyway.
Read our full Halo: The Master Chief Collection review
Destiny 2: Forsaken – Legendary Collection
Bungie seemingly rushed the original Destiny to release, offering a campaign mode that didn’t make much sense and a surprising lack of endgame content. Destiny 2 aimed to right these wrongs and its campaign is everything we expect from developer Bungie – loud, fast, funny, and a whole lot of fun.
Now more than a year after launch, Destiny 2 has evolved in surprising and great ways. While the first two smaller expansions didn’t add much in terms of depth, Forsaken, the most recent and largest DLC, gave the experience a welcome makeover. Rife with new endgame content, missions, and areas to explore, Forsaken changes the identity of Destiny 2 and will keep Guardians busy (and happy) for the long haul.
With Shadowkeep and more now out as well, there is more than enough reason to dive into Destiny 2 as the online first-person shooter continues to grow.
Read our full Destiny 2: Forsaken review
Doom Eternal
A sequel that is even better than the 2016 reboot, Doom Eternal is a confident and lightning-fast first-person shooter from the masters at id Software. It expands on its predecessors’ movement-centric combat with Glory Kills providing health when performed on staggered enemies, and there are more than twice as many types of demons ready to tear the Doom Slayer limb from limb. They’ll have a hard time doing so, as he’s packing a spring-loaded arm-blade, powerful chainsaw, and a huge arsenal of guns.
Where Doom Eternal far surpasses 2016’s Doom is its competitive multiplayer Battlemode, which shifts the generic deathmatch modes to asymmetrical battles between one Doom Slayer and two demons. Every battle is a tense affair from beginning to end, with the demons capable of spawning more allies to their side and ganging up on the Slayer as he attempts to evade and launch his own counter-attack.
Read our full Doom Eternal review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare defined the Xbox 360. Its intense single-player campaign played out like a blockbuster film while it’s competitive multiplayer kept the disc in players’ consoles for years.
Infinity Ward returned to the sub-series with the reboot Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a game that understands what fans loved about the original game without feeling trapped by its legacy. This time around, the story is told in a more grounded and realistic way, with disturbing content that is not included for mere twists or shock value.
Competitive multiplayer has also been refined, adding the massive Ground War mode alongside staples like Team Deathmatch and Domination. With the recent release of Warzone battle royale, there is even more to love about this game.
Read our full Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review
Overwatch
Overwatch has become nothing short of a phenomenon since it launched in 2016. The team-based hero shooter features a refreshing take on objective-based multiplayer action that emphasizes teamwork and strategy over brute force.
With a selection of more than 20 playable heroes, plus at least one additional character added for free through post-release updates, Overwatch encourages you to experiment with different styles of play. Though Soldier: 76 may appeal to longtime shooter fanatics and Reinhardt seems like the obvious choice for RPG lovers, you’ll quickly find that keeping teammates alive as Mercy or holding down a crowded area with Hanzo can be just as rewarding.
Read our full Overwatch review
Free-to-play
Fortnite
Fortnite needs no introduction. Epic Games’ third-person shooter — and its free battle royale mode — took the industry (and the world) by storm with its unique mix of last-man-standing action and building mechanics. It dominates children’s conversations at school, sparked countless imitators, and even managed to surpass PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which used a similar structure that served as the main inspiration for Fortnite battle royale.
With a consistent stream of content updates always giving players something new to do or see, the player-count remains high while some parents even buy tutoring sessions to improve their kids’ skills — and their own.
Read our full Fortnite Battle Royale review
Microsoft
Warframe
With deep customization options, a surprising amount of lore, and engaging moment-to-moment gameplay, Warframe doesn’t feel like a free-to-play game. The many quests and activities you’re required to complete can keep you playing without regard for any other game for weeks.
The parkour navigation and a mix of third-person shooting and melee combat will take some time to master, but having a solid team by your side will make the experience much less daunting. Its cooperative missions make it a great choice to play with a group of friends online. Warframe arrived on Xbox One in 2014 and has since received continuous updates.
Microsoft
Apex Legends
Apex Legends is a squad-based battle royale from Respawn, the studio behind the excellent Titanfall series. While it doesn’t have the Titans or the awesome wall-running, Apex Legends is a refreshing entry in the battle royale genre. The 60-player format splits players up into teams of three, with each contest choosing from a pool of eight legends with unique abilities.
Apex Legends has the best nonverbal communication system we’ve seen in a multiplayer game. The ping system lets you place markers on weapons, enemies, and other points of interest to help you keep your teammates informed. There’s no need to even speak through a mic. It’s that good.
The spacious sci-fi map is full of surprises and little details. The gunplay is as good as Titanfall and feels great in the battle royale format thanks to varied options and a bunch of cool attachments. And in a change from other battle royale games, you can bring teammates back to life after a bit of recon work.
The best part about Apex Legends? It’s free-to-play and none of the microtransactions give you a competitive advantage.
Sandbox/building games
Minecraft
One of the most popular games of all time, Mojang’s Minecraft was a hit on Xbox systems long before Microsoft bought the developer. Its nearly endless creation tools allow players to make unique and impressive structures, and its simple survival gameplay offers a challenge for those looking to venture into the unknown and slay the monsters they find.
The Xbox One version is one of the best, as the recent Bedrock update enabled cross-play with other platforms like iOS, PC, and Nintendo Switch. No matter where your friends are playing Minecraft, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to build and explore together. Minecraft is also an awesome choice for relaxing on your own.
Stardew Valley
It might have begun its life as a spiritual successor to the Harvest Moon series, but Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s Stardew Valley has arguably become more influential and revered than the series it tried to emulate. A farming adventure styled after classic 16-bit games on the Super Nintendo, Stardew Valley packs full of charm and character, and in addition to offering a variety of different crops to plant on your farm.
It also features dangerous dungeons to explore and several different characters to romance. The game’s polish and stunning variety is particularly impressive when you consider that Barone was a first-time game developer.
No Man’s Sky
Xbox One fans had to wait more than two years to get their hands on Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, but the game they eventually received was far better than the one released back in 2016. The Next update overhauled many of the game’s systems and requirements, resulting in more engaging adventures that no longer felt like blind busywork. Improvements like base-building allow you to feel like you’re truly living in the game’s enormous universe, rather than merely looking at it from a distance.
The biggest addition, however, was multiplayer. It finally gave players the chance to explore uncharted territory together and attempt to survive the harsh conditions found on many mysterious planets.
Read our full No Man’s Sky review
Strategy
XCOM 2 and War of the Chosen DLC
Firaxis Games managed to revive a long-dead strategy series in 2012 with XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and things only got better from there.
XCOM 2 is a harder, more diverse, and more engaging game than its predecessor. It requires players to master both turn-based strategy and resource management as they attempt to overthrow alien occupiers before they unleash a mysterious weapon.
Failing to move your units into correct positions or taking too long to complete objectives could result in them being overrun and killed. Once they’re dead, they’re dead for good. It’s enough to cause an anxiety attack, but with enough perseverance and a hefty dose of luck, you can repel the invaders and save the world.
Read our full XCOM 2 review
The Banner Saga (series)
If you’re in the mood for a stylish tactical role-playing game, The Banner Saga and its two sequels are a perfect choice. The games’ old-school cartoon aesthetic is gorgeous enough in their own right, but they’re backed by a deep cast of playable characters, several different classes, and important choices that can completely change the course of the story in, not just the first game, but all of them.
You can import the save data you create for the original game into The Banner Saga 2 and The Banner Saga 3, allowing you to create an ongoing narrative that is uniquely yours. Improvements and additions to the combat system in the sequels only makes the tactical battles more rewarding, as do the new playable characters.
Platformers
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Following the underwhelming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Konami placed the series on the back burner. Former Konami producer Koji Igarashi had no interest in letting spooky action-platforming die, however, and created Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night so that the spirit of the classic “Metroidvania” could live on.
Designed to be a very similar experience to games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Bloodstained features horror-inspired enemies, crafting, backtracking, and a plethora of enemies and bosses to defeat. Before launch, its art style also underwent a radical overhaul that makes it look far sharper and more fluid, with the 2.5D perspective retaining depth and fidelity.
Inside
Inside is the spiritual successor to developer Playdead’s smash-hit platformer Limbo and perhaps the strangest game available on the Xbox One. Its puzzle-solving gameplay blends elements of science-fiction with creepy, trial-and-error death traps, and emergent gameplay mechanics seamlessly into its narrative.
While just as nihilistic as Limbo, Inside‘s story contains an element of strange, twisted beauty that only Playdead can deliver. The unnamed protagonist — a small child who wears the only bright item of clothing — reacts with fear, anxiety, and determination to the events transpiring in this depressing world.
Read our full Inside review
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Ori and the Blind Forest is one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, blending simple but effective combat with terrific platforming and exploration. Its sequel Ori and the Will of the Wisps took five years to release, but it was well worth the wait. The game is even more gorgeous than its predecessor, with a more refined art style and an atmospheric orchestral soundtrack. It keeps the brilliant escape sequences of the first game, and though it does away with its unique checkpoint system, it still understands what made the original so successful.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a bigger game, too, but that size doesn’t change the emotional and touching story it tells. Microsoft may have a new mascot for Xbox and not even realize it yet, and it’s from a game developed by a strikingly small team at Moon Studios.
Cuphead
Some games are hard. And then there is Cuphead. The 2D sidescrolling game combines challenging platforming gauntlets with some of the most difficult bosses on the planet, each of which is capable of taking down the titular hero in just a few hits, and it requires some of the quickest reflexes of any game we’ve ever played.
You won’t mind dying to the same enemies over and over too much, however, as it’s also a gorgeous love letter to classic animated films of the ‘30s such as Steamboat Willie, and the hand-drawn animations and environments are nothing short of breathtaking. Combined with an era-appropriate soundtrack that’s heavy on the swing and the piano, and you have an absolute classic.hit
Puzzle and adventure games
Outer Wilds
Not to be confused with the unrelated The Outer Worlds from Obsidian Entertainment, Outer Wilds is a unique first-person adventure game that tasks you with uncovering the secret behind an endless time loop constantly threatening the galaxy. Depending on when you reach a location, it can change and offer a different experience, potentially helping you to unravel the mystery at the center of the time loop.
Outer Wilds is designed to be played repeatedly as you gradually uncover the answers you need — almost like a playable version of the film Edge of Tomorrow. It’s a race against time, but one you won’t truly lose if you’re making the most of your exploration. If you want to ignore that and just roast a marshmallow instead, that’s also an option.
The Witness
The Witness is a game that only Jonathan Blow could make. An atmospheric and existential game focused primarily on circuit-based puzzles, it features a familiar amnesiac protagonist element, but the world Blow has created is interesting enough to make it feel like much more than another tale about regaining your memory and uncovering some big secret.
Instead, you’ll be given philosophical tidbits that could help you in your understanding of your world as you make your way through more than 500 puzzles. If you’ve been subscribed to Xbox Live Gold for a while, you likely already have The Witness in your Ready to Install section, so you can try it out right now.
Read our full The Witness review
Role-playing games
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
Tom Clancy’s The Division had some problems with its competitive Dark Zone and endgame content when it launched back in 2016, but it was still an enjoyable shared-world shooter with an addictive progression system. The Division 2 doesn’t radically alter the MMORPG-like formula, but the move from New York City to the nation’s capital gives you more variety in the environments you’ll fight through. Blasting through a Mars exhibit in a museum is unlike anything we’ve experienced in a game before, and it’s even more fun when you bring some friends along for the ride.
The Division 2 tweaked the time-to-kill for enemies and agents alike, leading to more intense and risky firefights than in the first game. Make a few wrong decisions and you’ll be gunned down, and the enemies you face are smart enough to take cover and avoid letting you get too many shots off before switching locations. The Division 2 is a game of small changes, but they lead to a very satisfying whole.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Following up on the events of the previous game, The Witcher 3 follows the continuing adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter searching for his lost lover, Yennefer, and Ciri, his adopted daughter. Although its central plot offers a long and entertaining quest, there’s far more to the game than finding Geralt’s loved ones. The world is massive, dense with characters great and small who have problems they need Geralt to solve. Whether it’s exorcising a spirit haunting a village or helping a blacksmith rebuild his business, there are hundreds of little adventures to go on, and some even intersect in surprising ways.
The world of The Witcher is dark. An early scene finds Geralt riding into a war-torn province, the camera pulling back to reveal a massive tree from which prisoners of war have been hanged. It’s a grim image, and it sets the tone for much of what is to follow. Often the game will present choices that can have wide-ranging, unforeseen consequences. Not everyone gets a happy ending. Despite all the gloom, there are moments of warmth: an orphan reunited with relatives, drinking games with Geralt’s war buddies, a night of passion with an old flame, and more. Wildly ambitious and epic in scope, The Witcher 3 is a watershed moment for role-playing games, setting a new gold standard for the genre.
Read our full The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review
Monster Hunter: World
It’s not exactly the most traditional Monster Hunter game but that’s what makes it so damn good. If you enjoy a good open-world RPG where you can track rare monsters, engage in tough combat, and craft awesome armor out of their remains, then Monster Hunter: World is right up your alley.
Monster Hunter: World modernizes a classic RPG and makes it easy for anyone to jump in. It features beautiful zones that feel alive, monsters with improved AI, and cool DLC crossovers with Final Fantasy, Street Fighter, and Horizon Zero Dawn. There’s also a multiplayer mode where up to four players can don their best gear and take down dangerous beasts together.
Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom Hearts III is the first game to release on a Microsoft console right at launch. That’s spectacular news for Xbox One owners, as it also happens to be the very best offering of this zany action RPG series starring Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy. While you may be more than a little lost if you’ve never played the previous games, Kingdom Hearts III does include some recap features to catch you up on the story. Additionally, many people will say that the Kingdom Hearts story is already hard to follow even if you’ve played every game.
With all that said, you should play Kingdom Hearts III for the Disney chapters that live inside the overarching story. In Kingdom Hearts III, you’re transported to the world of Frozen, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Tangled, and more. Each world is beautifully recreated and the action is equally magical. Along with hack and slash combat, Sora and friends have a ton of neat summons, including bombastic attacks courtesy of Disney theme park rides.
Kingdom Hearts III is an all-around enthralling experience that should be played by both fans of Disney and action game aficionados.
Read our full Kingdom Hearts III review
The Outer Worlds
If you ever yearned for Fallout in space, this is the closest relative you’ll likely ever see. That’s because the masterminds behind the popular series, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, are at the helm of this incredible first-person role-playing adventure.
The setting is an alternate timeline that sees corporations colonizing other worlds. Your character originates from a colony ship, The Hope, that becomes lost as it travels through space to the Halcyon star system. One-hundred years later, scientist Phineas Welles wakes you from cryosleep with a mission to infiltrate the Halcyon colonies and save fellow humans from The Board, a conglomerate of corporations.
You eventually gain a ship and travel to various settlements scattered throughout the system. As with any other modern RPG, players gain side missions alongside the main story quests. Your choices heavily dictate how the story unfolds, such as diverting power from a local colony or withholding secrets from The Board.
Overall, there’s a definite Fallout feel under all the alien landscapes and technology. What’s missing is a memorable radio station pumping oldies into our ears.
Racing
Forza Motorsport 7
The Gran Turismo series was once the king of the racing simulator, but that time is long gone. Forza Motorsport 7 is the latest in Turn 10 Studios’ stunningly gorgeous line of Xbox One racing games, with the most realistic cars and tracks ever rendered in a video game. It can be borderline car porn, but for those who fawn over the smallest details of automobiles, including the fabric of seats and the stitching on steering wheels, Forza Motorsport 7 is the game you need to play right now.
The changes in Forza Motorsport 7 are incremental compared to previous games, but they still add up to the best version of a racing game that had already claimed the top prize. The artificial intelligence is smarter in races, making each victory that much more satisfying. The cars are varied and fun to drive, and there are more than 700 available to choose from. And though the game lacks the variety and player-driven progression of the Horizon games, its attention to detail is simply second-to-none.
Read our full Forza Motorsport 7 review
Forza Horizon 4
Playground Games has proven itself as one of the best racing game developers on the planet, and the studio has outdone itself with Forza Horizon 4. Taking the action to Britain this time around, Forza Horizon 4 is packed full of racing challenges and open-world fun to partake in, and running on an Xbox One X at 4K or 60 frames per second, it’s a stunning display of power.
A new seasons system changes the environments, as well, freezing over lakes or turning easy roads into muddy deathtraps, and with real players always racing around you in the world, you’re just a few moments away from a race at any time.
Read our full Forza Horizon 4 review
Sports
NBA 2K20
NBA 2K20 continues to prove my 2K Games’ basketball series is the best of the best. With new physics, ball handling, defensive adjustments, smarter A.I., and another great story mode, there is enough content to keep basketball fans busy for months. This is also true for MyGM mode, which is more accessible this year and will let aspiring tacticians feel more welcome.
Not every change is universally positive, such as the greater focus on microtransactions, but NBA 2K20 remains far superior to its competitive and one of the best sports simulations available. Few games are this visually impressive, too, with lifelike players that look even better on an Xbox One X.
Read our full NBA 2K20 review
FIFA 20
FIFA 20 builds on what has made the soccer series so revered for years, with improvements to its Ultimate Team mode allowing for more single-player opportunities, improvements to shooting and defending, all-new physics for the ball itself, and smoother animations. The play on the pitch isn’t drastically different from last year’s game, but it has welcome improvements for longtime fans.
Where FIFA 20 shines, however, is in the new Volta Football mode, which moves the sport to a small court-like pitch and teams of just three to five people. It turns soccer into a hockey-like game with tons of scoring opportunities and much fewer penalties than the traditional game, making it perfect for newcomers and veterans alike.
Pro Evolution Soccer (series)
Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series continues to improve over the years, rivaling Electronic Arts’ FIFA franchise with its emphasis on total ball and pass control, as well as improved animations and new strategies to help you manage your players exactly as you want to.
Using the Fox engine — the technology behind Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — Konami can create a gorgeous soccer game, with detailed players and natural movement that make it feel like you’re watching a live soccer match rather than simply playing one on your Xbox One. It isn’t as popular as FIFA, but that underdog position has only motivated Konami.
Rocket League
Who could predict that one of the best “sports” games on the Xbox One would involve rocket-powered cars driving alongside glass domes as they knock an oversized soccer ball across the field?
Psyonix’ Rocket League is a goofy game, but don’t let its wacky premise fool you – Rocket League demands your full attention, as players with enough practice can pull off some truly masterful goals and block balls in a last-ditch effort to keep their lead in a tough match. The simple controls are easy enough to grasp, however, so you should be able to get the hang of things quickly and begin (trying) to score a few goals.
This article was last updated by Digital Trends contributor Cody Perez on 4/24/2020.
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How many have you seen ? 131 movies total
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Harry Potter
Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Goblet of Fire (2005)
Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
James Bond
Casino Royale (2006)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Skyfall (2012)
Spectre (2015)
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Two Towers (2002)
The Return of the King (2003)
The Hobbit
An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Star Wars
The Phantom Menace (1999)
Attack of the Clones (2002)
Revenge of the Sith (2005)
A New Hope (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Force Awakens (2015)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
The Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Fast & Furious (2009)
Fast Five (2011)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Furious 7 (2015)
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
DC
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Transformers
Transformers (2007)
Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Dark of the Moon (2011)
Age of Extinction (2014)
The Last Knight (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
At World’s End (2007)
On Stranger Tides (2011)
Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Lost World (1997)
Jurassic Part III (2001)
Jurassic World (2015)
The Twilight Saga
Twilight (2008)
New Moon (2009)
Eclipse (2010)
Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
X-Men
X-Men (2002)
X2 (2003)
The Last Stand (2006)
Origins: Wolverine (2009)
First Class (2011)
The Wolverine (2013)
Days of Future Past (2014)
Deadpool (2016)
Apocalypse (2016)
Logan (2017)
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Ghost Protocol (2011)
Rogue Nation (2015)
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games (2012)
Catching Fire (2013)
Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)
Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)
Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Temple of Doom (1984)
Last Crusade (1989)
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Star Trek
Star Trek (2009)
Into Darkness (2013)
Beyond (2016)
Terminator
The Terminator (1984)
Judgment Day (1991)
Rise of the Machines (2003)
Judgement Day (2009)
Genisys (2015)
The Divergent Series
Divergent (2014)
Insurgent (2015)
Allegiant (2016)
The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner (2014)
The Scorch Trials (2015)
Mad Max
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Fury Road (2015)
Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2012)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Alien
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Alien 3 (1992)
Resurrection (1997)
Prometheus (2012)
Covenant (2017)
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83 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2018
Most “Himalayan” pink salt is from the Punjab area of Pakistan, not the actual Himalayas.
Hippos poop so much that sometimes all the fish die.
In addition to the supermassive black hole at its center, the Milky Way galaxy may be home to thousands of smaller black holes, invisible to even our finest scientific instruments.
There’s a parasitic fungus that doses cicadas with the hallucinogen found in shrooms before making their butts fall off.
The Arctic Ocean is now so warm that its floating sea ice can melt even during the coldest, darkest times of the year.
You can make thousands of dollars a week charging electric scooters.
When your eyes look right, your eardrums bulge to the left, and vice versa. And the eardrums move 10 milliseconds before the eyes do.
More than 2 million years ago, well before Homo sapiens evolved, one of our ancient-human relatives lived in what is now China.
Women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives have the lowest odds of marital happiness, according to one study.
When Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium opened in 1930, the inland aquarium had to ship a million gallons of ocean water by train from Key West, Florida.
Twitter is the preferred social network for nudists to meet and connect online.
The population of older adults who misuse opioids is projected to double from 2004 to 2020.
The data economy didn’t begin with Google or Facebook in the 2000s, but with electronic information systems called a relational databases, first conceived of in 1969.
At their most voracious, wildfires can grow 100 feet high and consume a football field of forest every second.
People with autism are 10 times as likely to die by suicide as those in the general population.
The number of exclamation points now necessary to convey genuine enthusiasm online is, according to most internet users, three.
An “ice tsunami” killed a herd of musk oxen in February 2011 and kept their bodies perfectly entombed for seven years.
Ten thousand years ago, the people who lived in Europe had dark skin and blue eyes.
Facebook sent huge volumes of data about you and your friends to millions of apps from 2007 to 2014, and you have no way to control—or even know—how that information gets used.
A fishing cat is a water-loving cat species that lives in swamps, quacks like a duck, and dives from riverbanks to snag unsuspecting fish.
Astrology is experiencing a resurgence among Millennials, fueled by meme culture, stress, and a desire for subjectivity in an increasingly quantified world.
In the beginning of 2018, Amazon had 342 fulfillment centers, Prime hubs, and sortation centers in the United States, up from 18 in 2007.
Ivy League universities took nude photos of incoming freshman students for decades.
Some fundamentalist Christian groups think the spread of implantable technology is a key sign of the impending apocalypse.
The shopping mall put a cap on consumerism as much as it promoted it.
Bees stop buzzing during total solar eclipses.
The scientist who advised the production team of Interstellar made so much progress on his research in the process that it led him to publish multiple scientific papers.
High fibrinogen content can help a blood clot stay in a shape like putty—even if it gets violently coughed up.
Many butterflies in the nymphalid group can hear with their wings.
Some scientists think the reason you want to squeeze or nibble on a particularly cute baby is to snap your brain out of the euphoria that cuteness can summon, making you able to tend to the baby’s needs.
In the fourth quarter of last year, 25 percent of all new office space leased or built in the United States was taken by Amazon.
The first scooter was invented in 1990 by a guy who really wanted a bratwurst.
The streets of Boston carry an average of four gas leaks a mile.
In August, Oxford University’s Said Business School came up with a clever way for homeless people to receive cashless donations: Donors could scan the barcodes on homeless people’s lanyards to send them money.
Don’t worry if you forget all the facts you read in this article by tomorrow—that’s normal.
Many doctors have difficulty accessing the health records of patients treated previously at another facility; less than half of hospitals integrate electronic patient data from outside their system.
The original indigenous American dogs are completely gone, and their closest living relative isn’t even a dog—it’s a contagious global cancer.
Donald Trump can’t really send a message directly to your phone. In fact, the president’s ability to address the nation directly in a time of crisis, available since the 1960s, has never been used.
In 1995, a man in Germany realized his pet crayfish was cloning itself. Clones of that crayfish have now spread all over the world.
Four hundred years after Galileo discovered Jupiter’s largest moons, astronomers are still discovering some tiny ones.
The fastest someone has ever hiked all 2,189 miles of the Appalachian Trail is 41 days, seven hours, and 39 minutes. That averages out to roughly two marathons a day.
The lifespan of a meme has shrunk from several months in 2012 to just a few days in 2018.
Elon Musk’s $20 million SEC fine might make his ill-advised “funding secured” tweets the most expensive ever.
Thousands of horseshoe crabs are bled every year to create a miraculous medical product that keeps humans alive.
Single-celled microorganisms can survive in lab conditions that simulate the icy environment of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Only 10 major hurricanes have ever made landfall along the Southeast Atlantic coast, if you don’t count Florida.
Animals that live in cities are sometimes found to outperform their rural counterparts on intelligence tests.
Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot is shrinking.
The paleontology consultant for Jurassic Park had a Tyrannosaurus rex eat a doppelgänger of another researcher with whom he had academic beef.
Some people think tennis balls are green while others think they’re yellow, and the disagreement has a lot to do with how our brains perceive color.
Conservatives tend to find life more meaningful than liberals do.
It’s easier for spacecraft to leave the solar system than to reach the sun. Thanks, physics.
Despite giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to charity, the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was worth $20 billion when he died, 48 percent more than when he signed the Giving Pledge in 2010 and promised to give away at least half his wealth.
China consumes 28 percent of the world’s meat—with the average resident eating 140 pounds a year.
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may be covered in 50-foot-tall blades of ice.
You can reconstruct a pretty decent record of historical whaling intensity by measuring the stress hormones in the earwax of a few dozen whales.
Doing a good deed—or even imagining doing a good deed—can boost an athlete’s endurance by reinforcing his or her sense of agency in the world.
A science adviser on Stargate: Atlantis imagined a fictional astronomical phenomenon called a binary pulsar system for the show. Years later, such a system was found in real life.
The lowercase g in Google’s original logo is really, really weird.
Sixty percent of gun deaths in 2017 were suicides.
From 1984 to 2015, the area of forest in the American West that burned in wildfires was double what it would have been without climate change.
An astrologer came up with the phrase “super blue blood moon” to describe a celestial event that’s much less scary than it sounds.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal caused 42 percent of Facebook users to change their behavior on the platform, according to a survey conducted by The Atlantic. Ten percent of those people deleted or deactivated their accounts.
In the absence of federal regulation or good research about how skin-care products work, communities of citizen scientists have started compiling pretty decent resources.
The figure-eight trajectory flown by the Apollo moon missions was the very same path followed by fictional astronauts in a classic silent film from 1929, Woman in the Moon.
After one year in America, just 8 percent of immigrants are obese, but among those who have lived in the U.S. for 15 years, the obesity rate is 19 percent.
There’s a spider that makes milk.
Goats love to feast on weeds, and you can rent dozens of them to landscape your lawn.
Some people have a bony growth on the back of their heel, called a pump bump, that makes it hard to wear pumps and other kinds of dressy shoes.
Astronomers can still detect ripples in the Milky Way caused by a close encounter with another galaxy hundreds of millions of years ago.
China built its rocket-launch facilities deep inland to protect them during the Cold War, but decades later it actually makes launching rockets into space more dangerous.
The folks who make Piaggio scooters hope you might buy an R2D2-like cargo robot to haul a case of Aperol home from the market.
Shifting the pitch of an audio recording can make it sound like an entirely different word.
Kids under the age of 8 spend 65 percent of their online time on YouTube.
A reservoir of liquid water may lurk just a mile beneath the ice-covered surface of Mars’s south pole.
When people overdose in public bathrooms, many service workers become the unwitting first line of medical responders.
Some people think that quantum computing will bring about the end of free will.
Mouse urine is a major cause of asthma for poor kids in Baltimore.
The House of Representatives’ longest-serving member, Alaska’s Don Young, was first elected to his seat after his opponent died.
In September, Hurricane Florence dropped about 18 trillion gallons of rain over the Carolinas—enough water to completely refill the Chesapeake Bay.
Europe suffered its worst carbon dioxide shortage in decades (think of the beer and the crumpets!) because of a closed ammonia fertilizer plant. Yes, these two things are related.
Americans spent $240 billion on jewelry, watches, books, luggage, and communication equipment such as telephones in 2017, twice as much as they spent in 2002, even though the population grew just 13 percent during that time.
People get more colds in winter because chilly temperatures make it easier for microbes to reproduce inside your nose.
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2018.
 Here we are with the films list again. Bold = watched first time. 
Films.
The English Patient
The BFG
Anna Karenina [1967]
King Kong [2005]
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Henry VIII and his Six Wives [1972]
The Disaster Artist
Napoleon Dynamite
The Addams Family
Kong: Skull Island
Justice League
The Addams Family Values
Johnny English
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Wayne’s World
Lady Bird
Westworld
Carol
Green Lantern 
England is Mine
Rush Hour
Pride and Prejudice [2005]
Call Me By Your Name
The Greatest Showman
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dante’s Peak
Only Lovers Left Alive
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Blade Runner
Moonrise Kingdom
Clue
Get Smart
Darkest Hour
Blade Runner 2049
Lost in Translation
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Lego Movie
Anchorman
The Shape of Water
Get Out
San Andreas
The Beguiled
Lady Chatterley’s Lover [1981]
Interview With a Vampire
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Song to Song
Atonement
La La Land
Drop Dead Fred
Attack the Block
Another Mother’s Son
I, Tonya
The Sense of an Ending
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Cold Mountain
Step Up
The Founder
The Fugitive
The Promise
Papadopoulos and Sons
Rob Roy
The Florida Project
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Head in the Clouds
Crooked House
Miami Vice [2006]
Miss Sloane
Molly’s Game
Battle of the Sexes
Half of a Yellow Sun
A Quiet Passion
Lady Jane
Anne of a Thousand Days
Mars Attacks!
Zoolander
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Nina
Pele: Birth of a Legend
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Futile and Stupid Gesture 
The Mask
Phantom Thread
Black Panther
Eyes Wide Shut
The Death of Stalin
Baywatch
Paddington 2
Wonder Woman
Star Trek [2009]
Star Trek Into Darkness
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Star Trek Beyond
Denial
Chariots of Fire
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Borg vs McEnroe
Iron Man 2
Thor
Avengers Assemble
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2
Ant-Man
Captain America: Civil War 
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thor: Ragnarok
War Horse
God’s Own Country
In Bruges
The Big Sick
The Towering Inferno
Magnolia
Our Souls at Night 
Dog Day Afternoon
Willow
Roman Holiday
Sabrina
Annihilation 
North by Northwest
The Emoji Movie
Coco
Grease
Dirty Dancing
Captain Fantastic
The Wicker Man
This is Spinal Tap
Magic Mike XXL
Come Sunday
The Dark Tower
Bill
Avengers: Infinity War
Loving Vincent
Mansfield Park
Three Men and a Little Lady
Oliver!
Rough Night
Avatar
One Last Dance
Girls Trip
Alex and the List
The Dambusters
The Mummy [2017]
London
The Damned United
The Wedding Video
Deadpool
Enter the Dragon
Atomic Blonde
The Red Shoes
The Great Gatsby [2013]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Morris: A Life With Bells On
Boss Baby
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Kenny
All About Eve
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Final Portrait
The Little Mermaid
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Men in Black 3
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Tomb Raider [2018]
Crocodile Dundee
Jabberwocky
Legend
Lethal Weapon 3
The Witches
Down With Love
Clash of the Titans [1981]
Clash of the Titans [2010]
I Give it a Year
Terminal
Where the Wild Things Are
The Handmaiden
The Muppet Movie [1979]
Brakes
Ready Player One
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
A Wrinkle in Time
Breathe
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Eagle vs Shark
Farenheit 451 [2018]
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible II
Mission Impossible III
The Saint [2017]
JFK
Ocean’s 8
Deadpool 2
Falling Down
Duck Butter
Peter Rabbit
44 Inch Chest
You Instead
The Deep Blue Sea
Not Another Happy Ending
Punch Drunk Love
The Fast and The Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
The Fate of the Furious
Geostorm
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Escape to Victory
Porcupine Lake
The Snowman
The Incredibles
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Daphne
Ingrid Goes West
One Day
My Neighbor Totoro
There Will Be Blood
Rampage
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Incredibles 2
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Belle de Jour
Mission Impossible - Fallout
The Spy Who Dumped Me 
The Meg
Little Ashes
Meet Joe Black
The King of Comedy
Jason and the Argonauts
Flash Gordon
Odette
Strictly Ballroom
Into the Woods
Cars 3
The Book of Life
Murder on the Orient Express [2017]
Kath & Kimderella
Madame Bovary
X-Men: First Class
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Apocalypse
All the Money in the World
Quincy
The Post
Becoming Bond
Early Man
Little Women [1994]
Dangerous Liaisons
The Party
Operation Finale 
Nappily Ever After
What’s New Pussycat?
Saved!
A Star is Born [1976]
Modern Life is Rubbish
Jaws
The Mercy
Swept from the Sea
Permission
Venom
A Star is Born [2018]
Far and Away
Heat
Jane Eyre
Braveheart
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Juliet, Naked
First Man
Christopher Robin
Vincent and Theo
Pollock
Bohemian Rhapsody
One More Time With Feeling
Interlude in Prague
The Mask of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro 
You, Me, and Him
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 
Crazy Rich Asians
Bobby [2016]
Outlaw King
Space Jam
They Shall Not Grow Old
The Grinch [2018]
The Big Lebowski 
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Mulan
The Battle of the River Plate
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
My Generation
Batman Begins
Being John Malkovich
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part One
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part Two
Widows
Immortal Beloved
Basquiat 
Goya’s Ghosts
The Madness of King George
Charade
Star Wars: A New Hope
Stars Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Stars Wars: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: Rogue One
The Polar Express
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Dr. No
From Russia With Love 
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough 
Die Another Day 
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
Spectre
Superbob
Greenfingers
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
A Christmas Prince
Aquaman
Love, Cecil
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Copying Beethoven
The Party’s Just Beginning 
Point Break
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
The Sound of Music
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppets
Cars 2
The Holiday
A Bad Moms Christmas
The Holiday Calendar
The Christmas Chronicles
Nativity
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger
Arthur Christmas
Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager
Zootropolis
Mary Poppins
The Good Dinosaur
Trolls
Rise of the Guardians
Bros: After the Screaming Stops
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Get Carter [1971]
Bottle Rocket
Turbo
Closer
Nothing Like a Dame
Bolt
Make Us Dream
Die Hard
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Porridge
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Books.
A Book For Her - Bridget Christie
Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie
Bright Star - John Keats
The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women - Katy Wix
The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women: Volume 2 - Katy Wix
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Division Street - Helen Mort
The Victorian Guide to Sex - Fern Riddell
A Woman’s Work - Harriet Harman
Help - Simon Amstell
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
Selected Poems - Sylvia Plath
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One’ EP - Stewart Lee
The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
Parker Pyne Investigates - Agatha Christie
Bone - Yrsa Daley-Ward
Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg
The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur
Different for Girls: A Girl’s Own True-Life Adventures in Pop - Louise Wener
A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
Repeal the 8th - Una Mullally
Why Not Socialism? - G.A. Cohen
The Chaos of Longing - K.Y. Robinson
High-Rise - J.G. Ballard
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fully Coherent Plan - David Shrigley
The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird
Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
Babette’s Feast - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 
The Expelled - Samuel Beckett
Youth - Joseph Conrad
The Life of Rylan - Rylan Clark-Neal
Autumn - Ali Smith
The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland - Frank O’Connor
Two Gallants - James Joyce
Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Selected Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Door in the Wall - H.G Wells
Terra Incognita - Vladimir Nabokov
Dirty Pretty Things - Michael Faudet
Women  & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard
Dear Illusion - Kingsley Amis
Bitter Sweet Love - Michael Faudet
Smoke & Mirrors - Michael Faudet
Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith
Pre-Raphaelites - Heather Birchall
Conspiracy - Charlotte Greig
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Sex and Rage - Eve Babitz
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - edited by Mark Roskill
Role Models - John Waters
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
How Not To Be a Boy - Robert Webb
Animal - Sara Pascoe
Absolute Pandemonium - Brian Blessed
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Feminists Don’t Wear Pink - Scarlet Curtis and Others. 
Parsnips, Buttered - Joe Lycett
The Humans - Matt Haig
The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Poems for a World Gone to Shit - Various
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