There’s an old refrain, forged at the peak of prestige Oscars bait, that every Holocaust story has been told on the big screen.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Settling the Score
The new documentary Sisters with Transistors — currently playing at Syndicated in Brooklyn — poses a sharp complication to, well, basically the entire premise of this piece.
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Dear Noah, or: Film Talk Radio
“Let’s welcome Noah Baumbach to the e-stage.
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I Vant to Infect Your Blood
Maybe Zack Snyder was on to something…
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Sawmantics
Sometimes, it takes writing about a reasonably-tangential subject for a lightbulb of epiphany to illuminate above this dim head of mine.
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It Me (in a manner of not speaking)
Movie trailers are a form of critique.
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Slice (of) Life
When you read the titles Army of the Dead and Saw, what are the first things you think of?
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Gang Gang
From a Muppet dick to a Muppet doc:
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Another One
Another Round, another remake.
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Not at the Table, Kermit!
We’ve gone over this before, but:
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