Three recent movies end with the same shot construction.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Dadda Mia
Marcello Mio has inherent appeal for cinephiles of nepo-baby lineages.
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Never Too Much Slipstreaming
Remember when I hypothesized that Sony envisioned the 2024 documentary Luther: Never Too Much as a marketing slipstream in tandem with Sony’s new Luther Vandross greatest-hits compilation?
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Earworming
Conventional wisdom says there’s one surefire sign that a musical has a fire score:
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Tilda Tilda
! Spoilers ahoy for The Room Next Door !
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Shorties
Best Picture is the most important Academy Award.
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Droppings
In the spirit of Oscars season, here are my favorite needle-drops from 2024 Cinema, in no discernible order:
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One for What?
A song that plays over a movie’s closing credits is given pride of place in the audience’s immediate response.
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Form Content
If the subject is the content of a biodoc, then aspects of their identity can inform the documentary’s form.
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But Why Not
Ask everyone who sees Queer for a basic plot summary, and you won’t hear many mentions of Judaism, the Holocaust, nor 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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