Tag: jennifer lawrence
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Review: Causeway
By Christian DiMartino Jennifer Lawrence needed a movie like Causeway. I’ve had investment in her from the start of her career, which was really in small scale indie movies. She nabbed her first Oscar nomination for Winter’s Bone when she was just 20, and then what happened next was a massive boom. Despite starring in…
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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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Review: Don’t Look Up
In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you might remember Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow sang a Grammy-bait song called “We Gotta Do Something,” about saving the world and what not. That seems to be the message that Adam McKay (or, sorry, Academy Award winner Adam McKay, lord knows he wants that known)is selling with his new comedy, Don’t…
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On DVD This Week: Apocalypse Election Man
By Christian DiMartino Note: The following is not about Donald Trump. Here are some of the movies coming out on DVD this week: The Purge: Election Year: Alright, I’m guilty of a lot of things. I once gave my sister a black eye with my giant head. I used to play with garbage. Hey speaking of…
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Review: X-Men: Apocalypse
By Christian DiMartino Alright I’m gonna be up front: it takes a lot for me to not enjoy an X-Men movie. I won’t deny that throughout its 16 year run, it’s been a tad uneven, what with trying to keep up with each other and what not. But yet I always feel like they put…
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Review: Joy
By Christian DiMartino Joy is a bit of a step back for David O. Russell, who has been on roll ever since The Fighter. That film, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle all made my Best Lists, and I assumed Joy was heading there as well. Well, turns out that lightning can’t strike four times, but I still think Joy is a good…
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Why ‘The Martian’ Won’t Win Best Picture, and Other Oscar Predictions
By Christian DiMartino Man, what a year for film it has been. A year so great, that great films like Love & Mercy, Sicario, and Youth will probably go nearly unrecognized. A pity, yes, but it is the truth. This race is all over the place, considering the fact that two of the main contenders, Joy and The Revenant, went un-seen…
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Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
By Christian DiMartino I never read Suzanne Collin’s wildly popular series The Hunger Games, but I will say that the movies are my cup of tea. Once Harry Potter came to an end, I knew that I needed another film series to invest my life in. Then this series fell into my hands. I like its dark,…
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