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The June gloom has hit Netflix, as the world's largest manufacturer of streaming content (bleh!) is taking it rather easy with a light month. But cutting through the gloom is one of Netflix's most ...

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Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...