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Feelin’ Spooky: The Addams Family 2
I saw the 2019 rendition of The Addams Family in theatres back in 2019, and it had such little impact on me that I didn’t write about it on any platform. I went with friends who laughed, and that’s great. I want my friends to be happy. I just sort of sat there blank and…
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Review: Dune
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is spectacular in every sense of the word. Here is a big, big budgeted, grandly ambitious and thoroughly gorgeous film where there is hardly a frame that isn’t breathtaking. Personally, I haven’t read Frank Herbert’s Dune, but I’m more than aware of the fanbase that the novel has, and for those who…
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Review: The Card Counter
Over the last three years or so, I’ve really grown to love the hell out of Academy Award nominee (God, that feels good) Paul Schrader. Not just as a filmmaker (see: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Blue Collar, Light Sleeper, Auto Focus, Affliction, etc) and writer (the aforementioned films, and Taxi Driver and Raging…
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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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