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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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Review: Cruella
Cruella is yet another attempt by Disney to revive one of their properties. In recent years, the attempts have been pretty blatant. There are a few good ones- Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast, and, whilst I’m in the minority, Tim Burton’s Dumbo. Each of those films…
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“I Sometimes Wish I’d Never Been Born at All!”: Final Oscar Predictions and Preferences
By Christian DiMartino The Oscars are on Sunday, and normally I’d be all in. But this time, the end can’t come any sooner. I am sick to death of griping about this fairly weak list of Best Picture nominees and all of the other mistakes that that have been made. And bad mistakes… they’ve made…
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Review: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
1/2 By Christian DiMartino I love parody films… when they’re done right. Look back at Airplane or Blazing Saddles all of those years ago. They were stupid films, for sure, but they were hilarious. They worked because you could sense inspiration and creativity behind the stupidity. That’s the key to a successful parody. But now you flash forward to…
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