I collected these a couple weeks back, so while I’m still vacationing, they’re easy enough to share! Make sure you don’t get these pairs of films confused, because they may sound the same, but…
All About Eve is a true classic, even if it was an early sign of Hollywood’s love affair with itself: a cynical tale of a manipulator’s rise and a diva’s decline in the image-obsessed film industry. All About Yves is a thoroughly strange comedy about the relationships between Jerem the failed music developer, So the statistician, and Yves the talking robot refrigerator.
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Okay…this one only counts when the titles are spoken in certain accents. But I still couldn’t pass up the chance to mention Barbie, coming soon to a theater near you, with the icon of femininity looking for a meaningful life outside her dream-house parodize, er, paradise. Bobby, by contrast, was star-studded Oscar bait following several lives changed by the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. (There’s also a Bollywood Bobby from 1973.)
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Hannah is a highly lauded foreign film showing the quiet unraveling of a woman with an imprisoned husband. Hanna is an action thriller about a teenage girl born and bred to be a super-assassin. They’re different as night and day in both pacing and genre, but both of them deal with fragmented women trying to reclaim their identities.
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Hell’s Bells is “the story of two aging idiots who accidentally make a deal with the Devil to fulfill their life-long dream of being rock stars and the hi-jinx that ensue when it’s time to pay the Reaper.” Hell’s Belles is a biker exploitation film revolving around a twice-stolen motorcycle and attractive but vacant biker girls. Both films seem like they should be way more interesting than they actually are. (And if you can parse the description on the Hell’s Belles poster, feel free to explain it to the rest of us.)