Category: great movies
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Great Movies: The Thing (1982)
By Christian DiMartino I wanted to write about John Carpenter’s The Thing for my “Feelin’ Spooky” segment last month, and was this close to doing it. It also could’ve easily have fit into “The Throwbacks,” because the film turned 40 years old over the summer. But I didn’t want to bombard you all with the…
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THE Best Great Movies: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
By Christian DiMartino Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher passed away on Friday, at the age of 88. She had a weird career- she won an Oscar in the 70’s, and she appeared in other stuff but nothing ever quite lived up to her Oscar. She was an incredible actress though, and her Academy Award winning…
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Great Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
By Christian DiMartino Every once in a blue moon, a piece of filmmaking comes around and makes a lot of noise. It knocks your socks off. It completely leaves you in awe and thoroughly exhilarated. I think that’s where most of us were with the year’s biggest movie, Top Gun: Maverick. And it’s where we…
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Great Movies: Punch Drunk Love (2002)
By Christian DiMartino Note: Since this movie is approaching its 20th anniversary, I could have just featured it on my new segment, “The Throwbacks.” But I have my lineup for that segment mapped out for the rest of the year, and since “Punch Drunk Love” is a great movie, it will be treated as such.…
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Great Movies: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
By Christian DiMartino It’s probably been 10 years since I last laid eyes upon Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and for whatever reason, I’ve never fully loved it. Of course the greatness is evident and present, but for some reason it’s never quite matched my favorite of Spielberg’s films. My favorite Spielberg…
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Great Movies: The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
By Christian DiMartino I was not alive during Larry Flynt’s quote-on-quote “reign of terror” during the 70s and 80s, and I was barely alive for the theatrical release of Milos Forman’s The People Vs. Larry Flynt (the film was released a little over a month after I was born). Having said that, it no less…
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Great Movies: Star 80 (1983)
By Christian DiMartino Bob Fosse’s Star 80 is as uncommonly disturbing as they come, and perhaps it’s only truly disturbing because we believe every second of it. That’s not just because the film is based on a true story, but rather, because Fosse pulls us into the lives of its two central characters (one central…
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Great Movies: Philomena (2013)
By Christian DiMartino A lot of times, a movie is nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, and is soon forgotten, whereas other movies that had an actual following don’t receive their recognition become more beloved over time. Take a movie like The Theory of Everything– in every way, a decent movie, yet there’s really no…
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Great Movies: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
By Christian DiMartino There are probably a great many people who will tell you that Nicolas Cage is a bad actor. That great many people, I imagine, haven’t seen Leaving Las Vegas or Adaptation. It’s not that Cage isn’t a great actor- he really can be, in the right role- he just chooses projects that are beneath…
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Great Movies: Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
By Christian DiMartino Say what you will about Woody Allen (and plenty have, and plenty will), but the man is not only a fine actor, but even more so, an excellent writer and director. Sure, if you’ve seen at least 30 of Allen’s films, it is easy to spot similarities between some and others. Yet…
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