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December 14, 2021

Everything Everywhere All At Once trailer

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November 25, 2021

The Carefully Controlled Carrot: Two Notes on The French Dispatch

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November 19, 2021

Don't Look Up trailer

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November 15, 2021

David Fincher's VOIR trailer

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October 17, 2021

The Batman trailer

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October 09, 2021

From Mark Seal's “'Marlon Was as Dead as Could Be': How Brando Beat the Odds and Became the Godfather"

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September 29, 2021

No Time to Die's final US trailer

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September 23, 2021

Spencer trailer

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August 04, 2021

Dune trailer

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Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch trailer

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Army of the Dead trailer

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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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