Category: A Trip Back To
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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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A Trip Back To: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
By Christian DiMartino David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an odd movie with a strange reputation. At the time, it received 13 Academy Award nominations, but even then was somewhat polarizing. Sometimes a Fincher movie doesn’t take off, but finds its audience eventually (such as Zodiac). This one was the first time…
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A Trip Back To: Beau is Afraid (2023)
By Christian DiMartino For the last two years, usually around March, I lose the energy to review. I still go to the movies, but I can’t muster up the energy to write about them. Even something that deserves the discussion, like Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid. Both last year and this year, from March to…
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A Trip Back To: Superman Returns (2006)
I recently revisited Bryan Singer’s truly polarizing 2006 adventure “Superman Returns.”
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A Trip Back To: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
By Christian DiMartino I decided to revisit all of the Star Wars movies recently. Why? Well, because I really wanted to revisit Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Why? Well, it’s pretty stupid honestly. Last year, I felt weirdly nostalgic for the year 2019. It was pre-COVID, I was fat, and you know, even though…
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A Trip Back To: John Wick: Chapter 4
By Christian DiMartino It was around the time of John Wick: Chapter 4‘s release where I decided to take my three month hiatus. Which is weird, because a movie this great probably should’ve rejuvenated my spirit. I guess I just occasionally lose interest in what I do and I need to take some time to…
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A Trip Back To: Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
By Christian DiMartino With the upcoming Insidious: The Red Door this week, it seemed like as good a time as any to revisit Insidious: Chapter 2. The original Insidious I know fairly well; the sequels, not so much. This is a series that really should’ve stopped after the first movie. That said, there’s some merit…
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A Trip Back To: Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse (2023)
By Christian DiMartino Usually, when I do my “A Trip Back To” segment, it’s either a movie I haven’t seen in many years, or a movie I haven’t seen in months. It’s a rare case when I do a movie that is currently in theatres, let alone the movie that won the box office last…
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A Trip Back To: The Village (2004)
By Christian DiMartino Around the release of M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, I decided to revisit his disastrous The Happening. With the upcoming release of A Knock at the Cabin, I decided to revisit Shyamalan’s perhaps the beginning of the end, The Village. Here’s the thing, the guy can miss. No doubt about it, he’s made…
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A Trip Back To: Avatar (2009)
I’ve noticed that if a film, or a filmmaker, gains a certain level of popularity, the internet, after a certain time, has this knack for dissecting it, nitpicking them and tearing them apart. Take, for example, Avengers: Endgame. Obviously a huge movie, and a very enjoyable one, but after a little while, a person or…
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