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TELL ME WHO I AM Stream on Netflix. At age 18, Alex Lewis woke up from a weeklong coma to discover that he had survived a devastating motorcycle accident, but lost most of his memory. At the hospital, he realizes he can’t remember who he is, how to walk or anything about his past — but he recognizes his identical twin brother, Marcus. This documentary follows the story of Alex’s recovery with Marcus as his guide, filling him in on the details of his childhood. But roughly a decade later, after the twins’ mother dies, Alex starts to question whether the childhood Marcus reconstructed for him was truthful, going on to uncover childhood trauma that he and his brother experienced before the accident. In his review for The New York Times, Glenn Kenny wrote that although the brothers recounted their story in a 2013 memoir, the film “functions as a continuation of the book, and ends in a staggering sequence in which Marcus is finally able to relay the whole truth to his brother.”

THE BLOB Stream on Criterion Channel. Sometimes, there’s nothing scarier than something that can’t be explained, and that’s at the heart of what’s terrorizing a rural Pennsylvania town in this 1958 horror film. “Well it’s kind of like … it’s kind of like a mass; it keeps getting bigger and bigger,” the protagonist, Steve (Steve McQueen), says as he struggles to describe it to the local police. As Steve tries to warn the town, the gelatinous villain goes on to gobble up the local mechanic and invade the movie theater. Then people discover its weakness. While the film was not particularly well received by critics at the time, it has become a cult classic that has inspired a festival in Phoenixville, Pa., one of the filming locations.