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Arrival

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Brett Alan Dewing
Dec 04, 2016
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Arrival isn't your usual alien movie.  Instead of fighting aliens, it's about deciphering an alien language.  Which, on the surface, seems really dull.  But I'm not your usual sic-fi guy.  I don't like the slick, actiony pictures built on a computer.  I like the more cerebral stuff:  2001: A Space Odyssey, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report.  And Arrival…

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