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Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
By Christian DiMartino Allow myself to quote myself, in my initial review of James Cameron’s Avatar from earlier this year: “Like, yeah, there’s flaws, but… f**k’em, look at what Cameron did here.” Yeaaaaaaaah, that’s pretty much where I stand with Avatar: The Way of Water. I revisited Avatar back in September and it was every…
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I Watched 30 Seasons of Television from 2021, and, yeah, You’re Gonna Hear About it
By Christian DiMartino Alright so you may or may not have noticed that I vanished for the last like 10 days. Both of my current segments- “Stallone Saturdays” and “THE Best Picture”- were put on hold. Movies such as Uncharted and Marry Me went un-reviewed. I also deliberately stayed off of the Youtube channel I…
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2020 Catch-Up: Ammonite
By Christian DiMartino Spike Jonze’s masterpiece Adaptation followed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) as he was given the near impossible task of writing a film adaptation of a novel about flowers, and somehow making it interesting. That’s kind of what I picture the writing process of Francis Lee’s Ammonite looking like. Kaufman, who also wrote…
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Christian’s Christmas: The Holiday (2006)
By Christian DiMartino Nancy Meyers’ movies are essentially cinematic comfort food. The stories are light, the people are pretty, as are the places. It doesn’t require a ton of mental effort to sit through a Nancy Meyers comedy, and it helps that she’s really such a terrific writer. She manages to not only write some…
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Review: Collateral Beauty
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Collateral Doody. Now that I’m back writing on here again, I made a personal rule for myself: unless it’s a reflection piece, I will not be reviewing anything unless it’s within the weekend of its release. But yet Collateral Beauty is the exception to the rule, because, well, this is going…
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