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:
Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
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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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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That Rose You Do
I forgot to mention one of the many effects achieved by That Thing You Do! endlessly repeating its title track, and this effect is related to another movie I’ve been meaning to write about: Bette Midler’s The Rose.
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That Song You Do and Do and Do and Do and Do and Do and Do
And now, a random missive from 1996:
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Write All Nite 