Category: A Trip Back To
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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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A Trip Back To: Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Remember when Hollywood gave more of a damn? Enough of a damn to fund a movie like Edward Scissorhands? Mind you, when Tim Burton broke onto the scene with Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, there probably wasn’t an immediate clamoring for more of what he had to offer, seeing as the movie didn’t get great reviews. Or…
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A Trip Back To: Armageddon (1998)
Armageddon It. I have probably talked about Trevor a few times on here. My best friend, right hand man. We see eye to eye on just about everything- movies, humor, interests, etc. Every so often we miss the mark. For example, William Freidkin’s To Live and Die in L.A.… absolute banger of an 80’s action…
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A Trip Back To: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: I never reviewed Top Gun: Maverick. That’s right. I’ve talked about it briefly, but that’s pretty much been the extent of it. Truth is, from about mid-February until about mid-June, I was in a creative funk. I started regaining the itch to write again around the…
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A Trip Back To: “Orphan” (2009)
With the current release of Orphan: First Kill, I must ask: did we really need more to the Orphan story? Mind you, I haven’t had the chance to see it yet, so maybe I shouldn’t talk. But Orphan, Jaume Collet-Serra’s horror thriller that I’ve always been a major fan of, was released in 2009. Shouldn’t…
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A Trip Back To: Purple Rain (1984)
I’m not sure why, but earlier this week, I became obsessed with Prince again. Or rather, I was reminded that I absolutely loved him. Sometimes all it takes is a song to come on the radio. I’m not sure that I lost sight of that fact, necessarily, but I spent so much time loving Prince,…
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A Trip Back To: A Star is Born (2018)
So after what feels like 6 months of constant, big movies, it seems as if theatres are going to experience a drought for a few weeks. Basically, if I don’t know what a movie is, it probably isn’t worth my time. What comes out this weekend? Something called Redeeming Love, and something called The King’s…
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A Trip Back To: The Happening (2008)
“Cheese and crackers!” Recent Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (Succession) is the one who has the misfortune of uttering this exclamation in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. Strong plays one Private Auster, who, under M. Night’s direction, almost acts as if he’s on the spectrum. Anyways, upon finding out that the next town over has a…
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A Trip Back To: Aloha (2015)
There is nothing worse than going into a movie with extremely high expectations, and leaving extremely disappointed. Well, maybe being burned alive is worse, but I wouldn’t know anything about that. Still, over the years, I’ve gone into movies with high hopes, just to have those dreams horribly crushed. Cameron Crowe’s Aloha was such a…
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