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“Smooth Criminal,” “Thriller,” “Billie Jean,” “You Are Not Alone,” “Man in the Mirror.” Just like the Energizer Bunny, the hit list of Michael Jackson singles goes on and on and on. Streams of Mr. Jackson’s catalog are up in record numbers since the release of this popular biopic, which has already made nearly $100 million dollars domestically in just its first week in theaters.

On average, around 6.8 million households in the U.S. are filled with roommates who share a dwelling and are unrelated. One must really screen their potential candidates closely in this day and age, though, you definitely do not want a “Single White Female” scenario transpiring!

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Coming in hot off her Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for this film, Julia Roberts (“Closer”) plays Alma, a tenured professor at prestigious Yale University. She must side with either her star pupil or her favorite colleague, Hank, played by Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”), who has scathing sexual allegations made against him.

Director Noah Baumback (“The Squid & the Whale,” “Marriage Story”) brings us a squeaky clean, crisp tale which follows celebrated movie star Jay Kelly, played by George Clooney, as he faces the decisions of his past and present. What a stretch it was seeing George Clooney play an overly tanned movie star in a fitted Armani suit, where everyone in public falls all over him. We have seen this man play this same role 15 times before, and it has become nauseating. Like usual, you know you are watching George Clooney, never trying to mask his appearance like other better character actors do.

How is every boy’s teenage crush in 1995 Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless,” “Batman & Robin”), 49 years old today? Well, it happens to all of us, if we are lucky enough.

Based on the wildly successful worldwide New York Times Bestseller book by Ruth Ware, “The Woman in Cabin 10” follows a big city journalist who gets a prestigious invite aboard a luxury cruise ship of elite rich folks. It is aboard this vessel where the writer encounters dark, hidden secrets that she was not meant to see.

“Die My Love”

Stop! Before reading any further, please go read my colleague Margaret Roarty’s “In Frame” column from August entitled ‘The Wizard of Oz’ turns 86. Like Margaret, I’m an Oz-head for life. She got to this topic a few months before me, but if any film deserves to be featured twice, it’s “The Wizard of Oz.”