Tag: films
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A Trip Back To: The King of Comedy (1993)
1/2 To be Martin Scorsese must be a little frustrating. Here is a guy who has made all of these excellent films, and has received multiple Oscar nominations… and yet he only has one Oscar to his name. To further that, while most of Scorsese’s films become instant classics and are completely cherished, others don’t…
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Review: Fatal Affair
By Christian DiMartino I love movies like Fatal Affair, even when I hate movies like Fatal Affair. As soon as Netflix announced the release of Fatal Affair, I was giddy. I didn’t need to know the plot, or anything about it. I just knew what kind of movie it was going to be, and that was enough. That being,…
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First Time Watch: Piranha (1978)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Piranha suffers from an interesting problem: it isn’t bad enough. 10 years ago, Alexander Aja (The Hills Have Eyes remake) remade Piranha, and honestly, it was exactly the movie it needed to be. Gross, ridiculous, and hilarious, the kind of movie that the original Piranha should’ve been. That being said, watching the original Piranha, I kept wondering if the…
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First Time Watch: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino The Bonfire of the Vanities is not a disappointment. Oh, do not get me wrong, this is a movie that rarely works, but it is not a disappointment in the sense that this film’s level of disaster is so well-known, I knew what I was walking into. This is not one of…
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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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Stallone Saturdays: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Zero Stars By Christian DiMartino One of the most respectable qualities about Sylvester Stallone is the fact that the man is more than honest about how he feels towards certain projects. Stallone once told Jonathan Ross that, on a scale of 10, he would rank Rocky V a “0.” Again, at least he’s honest about his…
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First Time Watch: Frankie and Johnny (1991)
By Christian DiMartino Garry Marshall, who died in 2016, made a handful of movies that were enjoyable, and what came in-between was usually awful. For every Pretty Woman or Overboard, there were at least two of The Other Sister. A fraction of The Other Sister, one of the most accidentally offensively awful movies in existence, is too much. Marshall’s Frankie…
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A Trip Back To: The Elephant Man (1980)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino The main goal of the “A Trip Back To” segment is to prove myself wrong. Sometimes, when watching a movie, my feelings turn out drastically different than others- in some cases I am more in favor, in others, I am not in enough favor. Take my first subject, Full Metal Jacket. Many…
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