John David Washington’s turns in 2018’s BlacKkKlansman and this year’s Tenet feel like companion pieces performances, and the relationship between them can be summarized in modern parlance by this gif:
Author: Steven Strauss
Sound of Epiphany
My epiphany occurred a few minutes before his.
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21st Century Best Pictures — 2020
Today’s topic: oversights — two for me, and one for the casual moviegoing (or, this year, moviestaying) public at large.
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Mount Yucksmore
A short one for you this afternoon.
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To Put It Another Way
Is 1953’s big-screen version of The War of the Worlds the third most famous adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic?
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Canoa: A Shameful Present
Canoa: A Shameful Memory is 2020 America, circa 1976 Mexico (and, coincidentally, the United States’ bicentennial).
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HOW COULD I FORGET!!!!!
I was so lustily fantasizing about an OKC big 3 reunion on Friday that I completely overlooked a juicy component to the dream:
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A Big 3 Reunion (Fantasy/Nightmare)
And now, an idea from the annals of “this will never fucking happen,” courtesy of the late-night meanderings of my Knicks-wary mind:
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Aptedtude
Was someone just singing something about how we could use some Aptedtude, dears?!
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Act-One Fake-Out Anthem
Allow me — and The Prom — to reintroduce a formal concept that neither one of us first introduced to the world: the Act One Fake-Out Anthem.
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Write All Nite 