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Close Encounters Of The Fact Kind: Spielberg’s UFO Homework Revealed (documentary: video).

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The Unseen Self: Kirlian Photography Explained by Brian Snellgrove (book review)
Close Encounters Of The Fact Kind: Spielberg’s UFO Homework Revealed (documentary: video).
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (horror film: trailer).
The End Of Oak Street trailer: bad news for suburbia, worse news for anyone made of snacks (scifi trailer).
How To Rob A Bank trailer: Nicholas Hoult discovers crime is now a content vertical (cri-fi trailer).
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Alter Ego #35 April 2004 (magazine review).
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Alter Ego #198 March 2026 (magazine review).
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz (book review).
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Secret Six volume 3: Cat’s Cradle by Gail Simone, John Ostrander and J. Calafiore (comic-book review).
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