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Spider-Man: Brand Newn Day: Holland’s Superhero Blockbuster Hits No. 6 All-Time Globally
It surpassed 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to become No. 3 highest-grossing film ever at domestic box office.
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Spider-Man: Brand Newn Day: Holland’s Superhero Blockbuster Hits No. 6 All-Time Globally
It surpassed 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to become No. 3 highest-grossing film ever at domestic box office.
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New Book: Cineliteracy, 1927-2027–What You Need to Know about 1940 as Movie Year
What You Need to Know about 1940 as Movie Year
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Sansho the Bailiff: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Japanese Masterpiece
Blast from the Past: Mizoguchi’s Masterpiece Revisited
Odyssey, The: Nolan’s Epic: Biggest R-Rated Movie of All Time With $1.35 Billion
It is overtaking the benchmark set by 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” with $1.338 billion.
Cabiria (1914): Giovanni Pastrone’s Italian Silent Epic (Cineliteracy 2014)
Giovanni Pastrone’s Italian silent epic was groundbreaking in its grandiose scale and radical use of a moving camera, pushing cinema forward technologically.
Unknown, The (1927): Tod Browning’s Haunting Horror Masterpiece, Starring Lon Chaney (Cineliteracy 1927)
The Unknown is widely regarded as a masterpiece of the late silent film era and the most outstanding of the 10 Browning-Chaney collaborations, eight of them at MGM.
