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What's To Watch? - June 9-15 - Several new items, more new Strange, and a Strange Visitor turns 70

        Another weekend looms!       Two pieces of personal trivia in advance of a couple items in this week's piece: I have never seen the 1997 film The Full Monty (though I know much about it, both in terms of plot and it's amazing box office arc from an opening week flop to a staggering, word-of-mouth-driven success), and I've never eaten a Flamin' Hot Cheetoh.       That noted...       Landing today on Peacock is a recent theatrical outing, a comedy horror one, for Nic Cage and Nicholas Hoult.        It hit theaters in mid-April, and was one of the films I came close to bothering to go out to see. It looks like great fun, and now looking into the box office for it (it did terribly there, not even hitting a worldwide gross of $26 million against its $65 million production budget) I almost feel a little guilty.        It's a story developed by comics wri...