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A traveling carnival is a world of its own, including having its share of villains and heroes. One of those people is the subject of Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.”

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield play the controversial televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

The French/Belgium co-production “RAW” is a twist on the Coming-of-Age story with a touch of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll with some cannibalism thrown in for spice.

The world of a white, liberal couple is rearranged when their daughter brings home a Black fiancé in 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” starring Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier.

There aren’t many fantasies more popular than going back to WWII and killing Hitler. Your dreams come true in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”

It’s another version of Charles Dickens classic tale of greed and redemption, but this time there’s songs and dance in “Scrooge” starring Albert Finley.

Will Ferrell plays a grown man raised by Santa’s elves at the North Pole in the modern Christmas classic “Elf.”

Rod Serling wrote a version of “A Christmas Carol” that reflected his views on war and greed called “A Carol for Another Christmas.”

I had warm yet hazy positive feelings of this 1985 bomb. Would it hold up to a viewing over 30 years later?

The life and trials of mathematics genius Alan Turing are explored in “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.

When aliens land on Earth, it brings out the best and worst in humanity in 2016’s “Arrival.”

A group of rebels and hippies operate an unlicensed radio station off the coast of England in the 1960’s giving their audience what they want and the British government the “finger” in 2009’s “Pirate Radio.”

A grieving, elderly man finds a unique solution to the gentrification of his neighborhood in Disney/Pixar’s “UP.”

A mad alien scientist, a lost virginal couple on a dark stormy night and a house full of freaks make for a long night of time warping and sexual awakening in the 1975 midnight movie classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Nature is a system of birth, death, birth, etc., and director Ari Aster takes that to an extreme in his film “Midsommar.”

A politician on the verge of winning the governorship attracts the attention of a beautiful witch and her vengeful father in 1942’s “I Married a Witch.”

At one time, director John Carpenter considered “The Thing” the favorite of his films, despite it briefly putting the brakes on his career.

A driven drummer and a sadistic jazz band director clash in the 2014 film “Whiplash” starring Miles Teller and Academy Award winner JK Simmons.

Bill Murray plays a horrible person that seems irredeemable until you dig a little deeper in “St. Vincent.”

Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo do battle with a shadowy group of art thieves in 1947’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”

We reach the end of an era as Maude completes the long journey in her #MCU introduction with “Avengers: Endgame.”

The lovable cut ups of the 4077th make the best of horrible situations by drinking heavily, having meaningless sex and flouting military discipline in Robert Altman’s classic film “M*A*S*H.”

The heroes from the #MCU face their strongest foe and it’s all hands on deck in “Avengers: Infinity War.”

An Army Air Force pilot is constantly being called crazy when he’s surrounded by people who are actually mentally ill in the Mike Nichols classic “Catch-22.”

An Air Force pilot becomes a superhero in Marvel’s “Captain Marvel.”