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A Trip Back To: Madame Web (2024)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Going into the new year, I made a promise to myself. The promise being, my first movie going experience of 2024 was going to be Madame Web. Mind you, I saw the Oscar leftovers of 2023 in January and February, but those months are usually such a dumping ground for crap…
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The Throwbacks: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” 15 Years Later
By Christian DiMartino I really like doing my The Throwbacks segment and have attempted on multiple occasions to “make it happen.” But it’s kind of like “fetch”: I should stop trying to make it happen, it’s not going to happen. Each time I revive it, the readership from the people of WordPress just isn’t there.…
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First Time Watch: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
By Christian DiMartino During my most recent absence, we lost one of the great, unsung filmmakers, Norman Jewison. Not that he didn’t get acclaim in his day, but he did spend the last 20 years of his life retired, so maybe that’s why he doesn’t quite get mentioned in the way that he should. What…
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Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By Christian DiMartino For the last week, I have basically spent the bulk of my free time watching Planet of the Apes movies. This weekend’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes marks the 10th in the series, and I watched six of them: the original, its direct sequels, and Dawn of the Planet of…
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Death to the Generic Biopic!
By Christian DiMartino I fired up Bob Marley: One Love a few nights ago, a movie I really wanted to believe in. With its February release date, I kind of got the sense that we weren’t in “Oscar territory.” Yet I liked the casting of Kingsley-Ben Adir as Marley, am very in the bag for…
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Review: Unfrosted
By Christian DiMartino Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted is a very specific joke, one that I have no doubt has been in Jerry’s brain for a long time. The film feels like a 90 minute inside joke, and I felt Jerry’s amusement at every turn. I just wish the joke itself was a bit funnier. The idea…
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The Best Movies 0f 2023
By Christian DiMartino About two months ago I went to start forming my essay on the Best Movies of 2023. I actually got pretty far too, and some of what is written here remains from the original draft. Once again though, I creatively ran out of gas. It’s something that I really want to work…
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Review: The Idea of You
By Christian DiMartino Straight-to-streaming romance movies have their audience. Perhaps it’s the same people who flock to the Hallmark Channel to get their fix. You get what you sign up for: a formula as old as the pyramids, a “will they, won’t they?” dynamic, probably a dash of humor, but by the end, the couple…
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Review: The Fall Guy
By Christian DiMartino David Leitch’s The Fall Guy marks the first time since 2006 (the 2020/2021 pandemic years excluded) in which a non-comic book movie has kicked off the summer movie season. The first weekend of May (or in some cases the weekend before) is the unofficial (but pretty much official) start of the summer…