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This week, Megan fills Evan and Dave in on\xa0CLOSE TO YOU (1:31), starring Elliot Page (who also co-wrote the story) in Dominic Savage's tender and emotional indie drama as Sam, who journeys home for his father's birthday, his first trip to his hometown since his transition. We follow that up with\xa0SKINCARE (9:18), Austin Peters's thriller starring Elizabeth Banks as Hope, an esthetician with a line of products about to hit the marketplace. Unfortunately, another esthetician opens a location directly across from her, and wouldn\u2019t you know? Someone steals Hope\u2019s identity and messes with her in a way that could tank her product launch. We wish we could say we loved it. (We didn\u2019t.) Finally, Megan and Dave talk about ALIEN: ROMULUS (32:23), the Fede \xc1lvarez-directed sci-fi horror interquel starring Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson. It takes the ALIEN series in a different direction, sorta, if not for all the derivative plot conventions and it lifts from just about every other ALIEN film. It has its moments (and it\u2019s better than Ridley Scott\u2019s last two hack jobs), but it\u2019s a mixed bag.\xa0Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1989 teen satire HEATHERS, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, in honor of co-star Shannen Doherty.