A Mythical Monkey writes about the movies

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You may have heard about 2020. The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic killed millions, wrecked the world's economy, and of least importance, but for the purposes of an alternate Oscar blog, of most relevance, shut down movie theaters for most of the year.
To say it was a thin year for movies would be an understatement. Not only did Hollywood punt many premieres into 2021 but studios also took the opportunity to beef up their streaming platforms by releasing movies directly into your living room, bypassing...

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A dozen International films to choose from — but no heavy lifting, no spinach. The Monkey doesn't do spinach (although I do eat spinach from time to time)....

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I'm sure somebody has written about this at length, but movie poster art has gotten a lot less interesting over the last thirty years or so. I'm sure there are a lot of reasons for that — newspapers stopped carrying ads for movies (or shall we just admit...