The Fishing Place’s final scene sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Author: Steven Strauss
More than Translation
Has anyone ever seen a feature-length movie with designed subtitles throughout the entire duration?
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Never Say Die
Love Hurts contains a bit of extra-textual casting.
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The Returns
Does anyone else miss when New York’s Signature Theatre would devote each season to producing multiple productions by the same playwright?
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Tight Elasticity
Only a live performance can utilize the audience’s immediate responses to shape the explicit text of the show.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
Three recent movies end with the same shot construction.
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Dadda Mia
Marcello Mio has inherent appeal for cinephiles of nepo-baby lineages.
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Never Too Much Slipstreaming
Remember when I hypothesized that Sony envisioned the 2024 documentary Luther: Never Too Much as a marketing slipstream in tandem with Sony’s new Luther Vandross greatest-hits compilation?
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Earworming
Conventional wisdom says there’s one surefire sign that a musical has a fire score:
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Tilda Tilda
! Spoilers ahoy for The Room Next Door !
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