Canoa: A Shameful Memory is 2020 America, circa 1976 Mexico (and, coincidentally, the United States’ bicentennial).
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
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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Fox and His Subtitles
And now, a New Year’s Eve note from our sponsors in the annals of ludicrously-nitpicky cinephilia:
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Twin Piques
Months after finishing the entirety of Twin Peaks, I’m still fascinated by the widely-maligned second half of season two.
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Spiked
After my aforementioned Spike Lee retrospective, I’m ready to make excessively-broad generalizations, each with exceptions galore, regarding how his joints tend to smoke.
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Summer of Spike
One of the major cinematic projects of my Covid-quarantine has been a complete Spike Lee retrospective.
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The Prescient Blob
Is 1958’s The Blob the first climate-change movie??
Write All Nite 