The prevailing anxieties of parents, particularly far-right Christian parents, seem to be the source of the most persistent film conspiracy theory - the movie industry's equivalent of satanic messages hidden in heavy metal records.
This double meaning has less to do with our responses to particular movies Spielberg has made than with a persistent ambivalence about movies in general -- what they mean to us, what they do to us, how we feel about them.
In his period review, Ebert applauds the way the movie's persistent telegraphing of a "horrific" and "inevitable" conclusion brings the audience along for a frightening ride.
Since going off the air in 2011, rumors of an "Entourage" movie were persistent, but the project didn't get an official green light until January of this year.
The list of my behavioral addictions is long, including but not limited to: compulsive sun, beach and hot-tub worship; pathological exercising and swimming; addictive reading; prolonged movie watching; persistent blogging; and excessive attachment to my wife, to say nothing about chocolate fudge sundaes.
As the sole realisation of Genet's persistent love of the movies, Un Chant d'Amour is an unclaimed pledge in the vast pawnshop of his imagination.
In spite of persistent efforts to conscript the movies into the culture wars, their broad, nonideological appeal persists.
He says some smart things about Fitzgerald's imagery — about, for instance, how ambiguous the idea of light is in his writing, so that the green light at the end of the dock is a portent of the shining illusory screen of the movies, standing for persistent illusion as much as for romantic aspiration.
Twenty years ago, no movie archetype was more persistent than the overprotective father, with an entire subgenre of threat-to-the-family-unit action movies built upon his shoulders.
The movie with the relatively persistent effect was the combined movie, that dramatises the full suite of arguments for and against cutting.
