The idiom “tight as a drum” refers to the tension of a piece of leather on the frame of a drumhead.
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Whiplash (2014)
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M3GAN (2022)
Little girls are creepy, uncanny dolls are creepy, both have been frequently and successfully been transformed into horror icons in the past… por que no los dos?
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Grand Piano (2013)
I’ve noted multiple times throughout this retrospective that Damien Chazelle likes to trace the challenges of musicians and creatives in his movies, requiring that they sacrifice some of themselves to achieve fulfillment.
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Snow Day (2022)
Typically when I spend most of the runtime wondering “Who was this movie made for?” I mean that as a negative.
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The Fabelmans (2022)
It is noteworthy on multiple levels that Steven Spielberg has a writing credit on The Fabelmans.
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Foolish Wives (1922)
Erich von Stroheim is a complex and compromised figure from early cinema history.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Normally when a film is cutting edge in visual effects, it looks like crap five years later, let alone thirty-five.
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The Last Exorcism: Part II (2013)
The Last Exorcism: Part II is dreadfully boring.
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Whiplash (Short Film) (2013)
In 2013, Damien Chazelle premiered at Sundance a short film called Whiplash designed to build up interest in creating a feature film version of the story, which already had a script.
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The Last Exorcism (2010)
The pitch is sound: 1973’s The Exorcist, but found footage.