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The pleasantly Kafkaesque Loki trailer

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"People will think..." "What I tell them to think!": 5 notes on the ever eerily relevant Citizen Kane (1941)

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January 24, 2021

“Next Saturday night, we’re sending you back to the future”: A mise en scene analysis of a still from Back to the Future

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January 10, 2021

6 notes on the mysteries of Frank Capra's It Happened One Night

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