Tag: ed harris
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The Throwbacks: “mother!” 5 Years Later
By Christian DiMartino Have many movies, in recent memory, started as much of a ruckus as Darren Aronofsky’s mother!? The movie, which was released on September 15, 2017, but had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival a few weeks prior, was a movie so polarizing and so discussed in the moment that it’s…
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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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Leaving “Westworld”
By Christian DiMartino Johnathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO Westworld series concluded its fourth season on August 14th, and… hmm. I watched it about a week after the fact and… hmm. Are people still watching this show? I haven’t the slightest clue, but as committed as I am to the HBO brand, and to the…
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Review: The Lost Daughter
We’ve probably all been thinking it, so I’ll just come out and say it: Olivia Colman is on her way to becoming the next Meryl Streep. Ever since her Oscar winning turn in The Favourite, she has been an unstoppable force. Whether it be on the small screen (I hear she’s great on The Crown…
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From the Shelf: The Rock (1996)
The “From the Shelf” segment is a series of reviews that were written months ago, but until now have sat, well, on the shelf. By Christian DiMartino For many years, I was convinced I’d seen The Rock. Not Dwayne Johnson (who hasn’t seen that Samoan God?), but the 1990s Michael Bay movie. Typically, when discussing Bay’s…
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