When I was but a wee lad, the industry joked about how Hollywood movies went out of their way to end on a note that could be fleshed out into a sequel.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Write On
“…but did you like it?”
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The Lost Vocation
One of my favorite artistic pastimes:
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Calculus of a Release
People have been known to ask me how I wade through EVERY NEW MOVIE released in theaters to determine which to see.
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More Than a Starer
Tár threw Noémie Merlant’s hat in the ring for the title of cinema’s foremost starer.
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Smoke Break
A globalized America deserves a globalized cinema.
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Food of Love for Fodder
Open captions challenge my preference for ambiguity in art.
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Open Interpretations
If diehard moviegoers — yes, we still exist — don’t check in advance, they’re liable to find themselves in an open-captions screening.
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Menken It
Disney is not Disney today without Alan Menken.
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Write All Nite 