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Review: Amsterdam
David O. Russell returns after a 7 year hiatus with his new movie Amsterdam. I have liked the bulk of his movies. The movie stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Andrea Riseborough, Robert De Niro, Timothy Olyphant, Anya Taylor Joy, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldana, Alessandro Nivola, Chris Rock, Taylor…
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Review: Bullet Train
David Leitch’s Bullet Train is a fun movie until it isn’t. Here is a stylish, glossy, violent, occasionally fun movie that, by the time it reached its destination, left me exhausted and wanting off the ride. It’s sure to do decent business at the box office this weekend, and I’m all in on movies doing…
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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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THE Best Picture: “The Shape of Water (2017)”
By Christian DiMartino Alright, so for the next month or so, on every Saturday and Sunday until Oscar Sunday (April 25th), I’m going to discuss random movies that happened to nab the Best Picture Oscar, and I’ll dive into whether or not these movies were actually worthy/ what their competition looked like. Some of these…
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Review: 99 Homes
By Christian DiMartino Have you ever seen the show Operation Repo? No? Good. Don’t. Operation Repo revolves around these fat ugly apes who tow cars, and every single time they do it, the victims flail their arms and put up a huge fuss. When you watch it, you get the vibe that these people are not…
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Review: She’s Funny That Way
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way feels like a Woody Allen effort, and for that reason alone, I found it somewhat enjoyable. It would be a somewhat lesser Allen effort, but still an entertaining one. The material is hit-or-miss, but yet the situations that these characters find themselves in end up funnier…
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