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The Throwbacks: “Fatal Attraction” 35 Years Later
By Christian DiMartino Do you know what the highest grossing movie of 1987 was? Beverly Hills Cop II. Do you know what the second was? Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction, with Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables right behind it. Guys, can we have this back? A studio comedy, an erotic thriller, and a genre movie from…
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Every Tim Burton Movie, Ranked
By Christian DiMartino Tim Burton turned 64 on August 25, and with that and the upcoming release of his Netflix series, The Addams Family spinoff Wednesday, I thought it would be a good enough excuse to talk about his body of work. Of which, I am honestly a big fan of. Many think that Burton…
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Review: Hillbilly Elegy
By Christian DiMartino Ron Howard’s latest film Hillbilly Elegy is perhaps his most critically annihilated since The Da Vinci Code. Here is a man who has had great success as a filmmaker, from Apollo 13 to A Beautiful Mind to Frost/Nixon, but also isn’t impervious to critical blunders. What’s particularly strange about Hillbilly Elegy though…
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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: 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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