Tag: dave bautista
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Review: Knock at the Cabin
By Christian DiMartino M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is an expertly crafted thriller. One with a level of writing, acting and directing that isn’t always present in his films, but is certainly present in his best. The thing about Shyamalan’s work is that we go into a new one hoping for the best…
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Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
By Christian DiMartino Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is one of more purely enjoyable films of the year so far; a film with a bit on its mind, but mostly, it just wants to deliver upon a good time. In this case, it’s kind of a great time. The film had a…
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Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
Remember Thor: Ragnarok? Who doesn’t? Following the original Thor (which I always dug more than most) and the second movie, which… happened, Taika Waititi found new life to breathe into the character and did so wonderfully with Thor: Ragnarok. The movie was sharp, funny, and it had tremendous energy. So five years later, Waititi now…
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Review: Dune
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is spectacular in every sense of the word. Here is a big, big budgeted, grandly ambitious and thoroughly gorgeous film where there is hardly a frame that isn’t breathtaking. Personally, I haven’t read Frank Herbert’s Dune, but I’m more than aware of the fanbase that the novel has, and for those who…
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My bond with… Bond: Spectre (2015)
After the hugely successful and Oscar winning (the first Bond film to win an Oscar since Thunderball) heights of Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, Mendes was brought back in three years later for the hotly anticipated Spectre. Even six years later, I get the sense that the jury is still out on this movie. I know people…
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