One of Joe Pesci’s two scenes in Day of the Fight utilizes the audience’s familiarity with his oeuvre to make us feel the protagonist’s plight.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
It Ends with Them
It Ends with Us is back in the headlines, for reasons having almost nothing to do with what’s in the movie.
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A Sequel Kind of Documentary
A New Kind of Wilderness is basically a documentary sequel to Captain Fantastic.
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Cuckoo
Bird challenges societal dogma.
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Small for Small
Cillian Murphy, humanist actor.
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Guess Who
When a movie/play is about a sizable family gathering, you can count on early conversations being rife with exposition clearly mapping out their family tree.
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Heretical
Casting recognizable actors in undersized roles can meaningfully dupe audience expectations.
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From Small Things
An unexpectedly abrupt ending can prompt consideration of why the story concludes on such a surprisingly unresolved note.
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Show and Skip
To show or not to show, that is a fundamental question of storytelling.
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Allegory Pageantry
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is an allegory about the social relations between a Christian majority and a Jewish minority.
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