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Does Poker Face's "The Day of the Iguana" episode reference The Night of the Iguana or the book Day of the Iguana?
Poker Face Season 2, Episode 11 is titled "The Day of the Iguana," which is clearly similar to the title of Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver's book Day of the Iguana (with just "the" ...
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Why are 'The Bridge', 'The Tunnel' and 'The Pass' so similar?
I recently noticed, that the series The Bridge (2011), The Tunnel (2013) and Pagan Peak (2018) begin very similar. Is that just a coincidence?
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the title, duh;
a dead body is ...
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Is there any connection between the two magician films, The Illusionist and The Prestige, which were released around the same time?
Both The Illusionist and The Prestige are about turn-of-the-century performing magicians and were released not even two months apart from each other. The former was released on September 1st, 2006, ...
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Why (and how) are two similar Jungle Book movies being made at the same time?
Everybody perhaps knows of Jon Favreau's movie The Jungle Book, which is going to be released in 2016. But quite recently I learned (and to my utter surprise) that another Jungle Book movie is coming ...
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The Matrix vs. eXistenZ: how did they influence each other?
It cannot have happened by sheer coincidence that in the first quarter of 1999 two highly related movies were released - the Wachowskis' The Matrix and David Cronenberg's eXistenZ - which had (among ...
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Difference between The Ring and Ringu
I watched the Hollywood version of The Ring (2002), but I didn't watch the original Japanese version Ringu (1998). Are the plots of both movies exactly the same? If not, what are the differences ...
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What are the differences between the alternative versions of Blade Runner?
I may have lost count, but the last time I checked there were 4 different cuts of Blade Runner. The original cinema release (with the voice over and the spliced from another movie ending) followed by ...
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