I'd say the movie musical is surviving reasonably well if animated films are included. They seem to have what you're talking about—reasonably sound plots moved forward by songs that serve the story. Love it or hate it, "Let it Go" (the song and the animated sequence) does a good job telling the audience what's going…

"I find your lack of tech savvy disturbing."

That's what I thought it was until I saw the lyrics, it seemed to fit with the setting. Here's a good interview with the band/couple that wrote the song. They live in the desert, which makes sense of the lyrics:

Exactly.

KENOBI: (chuckling to himself) Hey, kid.

"Why didn't you tell me? You told me that Bon Iver betrayed and murdered my father!"

KENOBI: It's not as clumsy or random as a blaster. Like, some barbarian would be zapping away at me with a blaster, but I'd get in reeeaaal close. Close enough to see the fear in his eyes. And I'd slice off his gun hand. And once you smell the cooked flesh and hear the screams you might get a little blood lust…

Bon Iver—now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

Hence the embarrassing video that leaked a few years ago showing Steve Jobs screaming obscenities at a tearful Shmi Skywalker.

Apple is a bit cross because Abrams' NDA bars him from discussing details of the new design.

Well, ever since Apple outsourced lightsaber mass-production to overseas slave factories the quality has suffered even though the design remains sound.

The Haberdasher?

I think they just decided that "hiding like persona non grata / in the larrea tridentata" was too much of a mouthful:

I like my lagers like I like my humor—cheap and tasteless.

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Not that I wouldn't have enjoyed a movie about heroic Belgian industrialists clinging to the last vestiges of their brutal and corrupt colonialist prerogatives.

Belgian Sniper is a surprisingly gripping 2006 biopic about Jan Ceulemans.

That sentence isn't easy to parse but I think the Irish peacekeepers were fighting against the mining companies and their separatist allies.

I was hoping for a BDSM-themed US Civil War drama, 50 Shades of the Blue and the Gray.

I knew you were kibble when you walked in.