Daredevil. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 1964 comic book
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Daredevil
Stan Lee, Bill Everett, 1964
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Drew Goddard, 2015-2018

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock use his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil, while uncovering a conspiracy of the criminal underworld being led by Wilson Fisk.


Full Metal Jacket. Poster of the 1987 movie and cover of the 1979 book, The Short-Timers
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The Short-Timers
Gustav Hasford, 1979
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Stanley Kubrick, 1987

During the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, a group of boot camp recruits arrive at Parris Island. Among the recruits is the overweight and dim-witted Leonard Lawrence, whom Hartman nicknames Gomer Pyle, as well as the wisecracking J.T.


Ed Wood. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1992 book, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
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Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
Rudolph Grey, 1992
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Tim Burton, 1994

In 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to enter the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen’s life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalized film titled I Changed My Sex! Ed then meets his longtime idol, horror film actor Bela Lugosi, with whom he becomes friends. Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach.


Men in Black. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Men in Black
Steve Perry, 1997
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Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997

After a government agency makes first contact with aliens in 1961, alien refugees live in secret on Earth by disguising themselves as humans. After an operation to arrest an alien criminal named Mikey near the Mexican border by Agents K and D, the latter decides that he is too old for his job, prompting the former to neuralyze him so he can retire.


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The Men in Black
Lowell Cunningham, Sandy Carruthers, 1990
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Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997

After a government agency makes first contact with aliens in 1961, alien refugees live in secret on Earth by disguising themselves as humans. After an operation to arrest an alien criminal named Mikey near the Mexican border by Agents K and D, the latter decides that he is too old for his job, prompting the former to neuralyze him so he can retire.


Emerald City. Poster of the 2016 TV series and cover of the 1900 book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, 1900
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Matthew Arnold, Josh Friedman, 2016-2017

After being transported from Lucas, Kansas, to the Land of Oz by a tornado, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale sets out to find the Wizard, unaware that she is about to fulfill a prophecy that will change everyone’s lives forever. A modern reimagining of the stories that led to ‘The Wizard of Oz’.


The Thirteenth Floor. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1964 book, Simulacron 3
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Simulacron 3
Daniel F. Galouye, 1964
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Josef Rusnak, 1999

In 1999 Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall, who is also the heir to the company, becomes the primary suspect.


Kill the Irishman. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1998 book, To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia
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To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia
Rick Porrello, 1998
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Jonathan Hensleigh, 2011

In 1960 Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen at the Cleveland docks. Nardi gets him work as an enforcer for Hungarian Jewish loan shark Shondor Birns, and later helps pitch a deal to Mafia Capo Jack Licavoli: Greene will force the city’s garbage haulers to join the union Licavoli controls.


Dumb Money. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2021 book, The Antisocial Network
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The Antisocial Network
Ben Mezrich, 2021
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Craig Gillespie, 2023

The ultimate narrative of David challenging Goliath, drawing from the astonishing real-life account of ordinary individuals who completely changed the dynamics of Wall Street. They achieved wealth by transforming GameStop into the most sought-after company on a global scale.


Jurassic World. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Jurassic World: Junior Novelization
David Lewman, 2015
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Colin Trevorrow, 2015

Brothers Zach and Gray Mitchell visit Jurassic World, a dinosaur theme park on Isla Nublar, of which their aunt Claire Dearing is the operations manager. Based on the raptors’ ability to follow commands, head of InGen security Vic Hoskins believes that the animals can be weaponized, an idea Owen and his assistant Barry strongly oppose.


Household Saints. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1983 book
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Household Saints
Francine Prose, 1983
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Nancy Savoca, 1993

This unsettling drama follows the lives of three generations of Italian-American women as they strive to survive in Little Italy, New York in the aftermath of World War II.


Thumbsucker. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Thumbsucker
Walter Kirn, 1999
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Mike Mills, 2005

Justin Cobb is a shy 17-year-old teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it’s totally disrupting his home, love and school love life, he allows his orthodontist to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs, pot and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become normal, never realizing normal is just a state of mind.