Warning: spoilers alert ahead for Shayda, Australia’s shortlist-rejected submission to this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature, to be released in March.
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Author: Steven Strauss
The Iron Curse
Both the new movie The Iron Claw and the new TV series The Curse share a distinct cinematographic trait:
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Brillophonic
If you want to sell out an off-Broadway show, cast Will Brill.
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Destination
The box office success of Sound of Freedom can’t be discussed without mentioning its pay-it-forward tag.
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Left Behind
Leave the World Behind has been put through the Covid ringer, transforming it into an artifact of how the Covid Era shapes contemporaneous art.
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Make Room for Vroom Vroom
The training montage comes in many forms, depending on the genre.
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Silence New Nights
A musical’s primary dramaturgy revolves around deciding which parts of a story to set to song.
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Nudity’s Theater
The foremost chronicler of how plays use nudity for dramaturgical purposes has logged back on.
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Scenarios
Both of Kristoffer Borgli’s 2023 releases — he wrote, directed, AND edited Sick of Myself AND Dream Scenario — are satirically-askew allegories about living in the 21st century’s attention economy.
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Two Hits
Not one, but TWO movies wide-released on the very same day (November 17) quote famous lines from 21st century cinema WITHOUT referencing the movies they originate from, assuming their fame precedes them to such a degree that no explicit citation is necessary.
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