A series of cinematic echoes, starting with the voice of After the Wedding:
Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Contrived Convention
In a Sundance relationship-drama wannabe, when a parental figure promises not to miss a tyke’s birthday bash, you damn well know they’re missing that party.
Goosey
When you’re familiar with the source material, it’s hard not to judge the adaptation more than its actual content.
Juxtapositioning
Los Reyes is up there with White God among my favorite pup pictures of recent years.
Is This an Approach
How is Ralph Fiennes, one of the best actors in the world, not getting offered better roles than Official Secrets?!
Normie and False
Strange But True is roughly the 30,573,483,483,084th movie — in 2019 alone! — to regurgitate the most overused device in the screenwriting (or, perhaps, the editing) handbook, one so prevalent I’ve even covered it before:
Let Go
Don’t Let Go’s a potent premise, impotently told.
Doc Trip
Not even a holiday — I’m OBVIOUSLY referring to my birthday yesterday, NOT Labor Day 😉 — can stop Write All Nite’s resident Pretend Film Programmer (AKA: it me) from pontificating on connections between new(ish) movies:
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