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Review: Inferno
By Christian DiMartino Burn baby burn, Dante’s Inferno… I’m a few days late on reviewing Ron Howard’s Inferno. That’s my bad. It really is my bad though, because the movie tanked at the box office. Perhaps had I reviewed it it would have beat Madea’s Boo. It’s a sad world we’re living in, where both Tom Cruise…
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On DVD This Week: Summer leftovers
By Christian DiMartino Here are some of the movies coming out on DVD today: Central Intelligence: Central Intelligence came out the same day as Finding Dory, and magically still made a lot of money. And even more magical: it didn’t totally suck. That being said though, it’s a film that didn’t completely sell me. Dwayne Johnson and…
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Review: Hell or High Water
By Christian DiMartino Hell or High Water is the film I’ve waited all summer for, and I didn’t even know it. There’s been plenty of good films this summer, and in some cases, excellent (The Lobster and Captain America: Civil War). But nothing I would call perfect. So these last few weeks, I’ve really been…
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Review: Warcraft
1/2 By Christian DiMartino “Ooh that smell, that smell of death surrounds you.” -Lynyrd Skynyrd There’s no better way to describe Warcraft, director Duncan Jones’ ten megaton bomb that smells so bad it could choke a maggot. How could Jones, the son of my favorite musician, David Bowie, have gone so wrong? His first two…
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Review: The Program (DVD)
By Christian DiMartino Stephen Frears’ The Program is a curious little film: it has all the elements needed for a successful biopic, and yet it still falls a little short. Still though, this is some interesting stuff. Frears, the great filmmaker behind The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons, and Dirty Pretty Things, knows how to make a great movie, and hell, even…
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