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Will Smithsonian

A rapper turned actor becomes the Secretary of the Smithsonian.

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Tone LOC

A rapper turned actor becomes the head Librarian of Congress.

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The Best of R.E.M.

Everyone can lucid dream, but some people grow to hate it.

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Collapse Into Now

A sequel to Out of Time, the scientist whose dimensions were warped and switched by time travel believes he can undo his original work and travel back in time, but it requires him to expend horrifying amounts of energy to bounce back and forth between the past and the future, slowly unwinding entropy until he returns to a normal now, before he ever traveled to the future in the first place.

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Accelerate

A scientist discovers he can make money using gravitational arbitrage- that while gravity itself is constant, due to fluctuations in heights on surface of earth and a spinning core, there are small differences in the mass and weight depending where on the planet an object is and where it's going. His work has unintended consequences.

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Around the Sun

An unexpected and unforeseen series of comets enter the solar system, and begin clustering around the inner four planets, trapped in their gravitational field. These new moons begin to wreak havoc on orbital patterns.

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Reveal

A stage magician is capable of doing real magic, but hates it because he feels his audience isn't worthy of seeing it. After being goaded into pulling off a truly impossible feat during a private show, he begins using real magic with real consequences.

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Up

A terrible knockoff of Stephen King's (Richard Bachman's) book The Long Walk, wherein the contest is climbing stairs rather than just continually walking along a road.

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New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Styled to be an '80s sex comedy, a teenager with a pirate radio station in a small suburb broadcasts his late night show for friends and other teenagers, at first unaware the songs he plays are causing people to kill themselves depending on the lyrics of the songs. While initially horrified, he begins a perverse experiment, with tragic consequences.

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Monster

A little girl living in an apartment building in a small city in the American south comes to believe everyone in the complex is some kind of monster, even her own family. Turns out, she is too.

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Automatic for the People

In the future, the U.S. government provides for every American... automatic weapons. In fact, the government is effectively a social democracy, wherein the only services provided free of charge by the government are guns and ammunition.

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Out of Time

A scientist discovers a method of traveling forward through time by physically transcending traditional spacetime, slipping into another dimension instantaneously, then slipping back. But every time he does this, the concept of dimensionality becomes warped, until he is unrecognizable to anyone.

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Document

Due to be released from prison in six hours, a prisoner grapples with how to steal his discharge paperwork, as the paperwork itself when read aloud during processing could return him to prison for life, rather than the short sentence he just completed.

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Life's Rich Pageant

A lonely little boy in rural Georgia in the 1950s decides to put on a beauty pageant, pretending to be all the contestants and judges himself. As the day of the "pageant" gets closer, the boy becomes more and more unhinged, and his fantasy is not what it seems.

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Fables of the Reconstruction

A horror comedy framed similarly like The Princess Bride, except the grandfather is Eric Foner and he's reading his manuscript for Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution to his sick grandson.

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Reckoning

The last living member of a Southern family confronts the ghosts of the past, literally.

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Murmur

A horror movie in which an up and coming indie band spends the night at a group house after playing a basement show, but can't sleep for a low voice which seems to come from nowhere.