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January 2023

14Jan 2023

NewsScifi

Arrival: meet the intelligent science fiction film (movie retrospective).

Are you ready for a mind-bending, reality-warping journey through the cosmos? Look no further than the critically acclaimed film, Arrival. Warning. Spoilers lie…

ColonelFrog14 Jan 2023

November 2016

16Nov 2016

NewsScifi

Arrival (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).

Twelve alien craft land at apparently random locations on the Earth’s surface. This creates a dangerous situation that could lead to a third…

MarkRLeeper16 Nov 2016

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