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JUST THE TWO OF US

There are some lies that film fans can convince themselves of. That you can see a knife entering Janet Leigh’s torso in Psycho, that The Shining contains clues about how the Moon landing was faked and that when Jeremy Irons won his Oscar in 1991 for Reversal of Fortune it was really for David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. Even Irons acknowledged it during his Oscar speech saying, ‘Thank you also, and some of you may understand why, thank you David Cronenberg.’

The original saw Irons play

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