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Review: Empire of Light
By Christian DiMartino Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light is a curious experience. The movie begins well, features splendid performances, is beautifully filmed by Roger Deakins, is immaculately scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Everything appears to be in its right place, but ultimately it doesn’t hang together as a movie. It’s like looking at…
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My Most Anticipated Movies for the Rest of the Year
By Christian DiMartino The fall film festival schedules are starting to roll out, and… whew. This is a lot to take in. Paul Schrader just announced that his next movie, Master Gardener, will be at the New York Film Festival. I also just discovered that it will actually premiere at the Venice Film Festival the…
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The Best Movies of 2021 (a tad late, I know)
By Christian DiMartino Typically when I make a 10 best list for movies, I like to wait until I’ve caught up with everything I deem necessary. In other words, I await the Oscar nominations, and if there is a major nomination that I have missed, I will wait until I’ve caught up with it. I…
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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 Oscars: Final Predictions
By Christian DiMartino The Oscar nominations are coming out on Tuesday, February 8th. As we might know, this is always a subject that I find myself getting really invested in. Even though over time I’ve grown to realize more and more that they’re a load of crap. What do I mean? Well they just seem…
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Review: The Lost Daughter
We’ve probably all been thinking it, so I’ll just come out and say it: Olivia Colman is on her way to becoming the next Meryl Streep. Ever since her Oscar winning turn in The Favourite, she has been an unstoppable force. Whether it be on the small screen (I hear she’s great on The Crown…
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Review: The Father
By Christian DiMartino Ladies and gentlemen, let’s hear it for Sir Anthony Hopkins. The man needs no introduction, and is of course a legend. But it’s not often that you hear of an actor, well into his 80s, delivering career-defining work. Hopkins masterpiece might always be The Silence of the Lambs, because let’s be real:…
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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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