Tag: ryan reynolds
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Review: Spirited
By Christian DiMartino My local theatre hosted a “Mystery Movie Screening” this evening. This is basically a movie that hasn’t been released yet that you get to see early, for $5- the catch being, you don’t know what the movie is until you’re there. I almost went to one of these back in September, but…
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Christian’s Christmas: Just Friends (2005)
Just Friends isn’t the most Christmas-y of Christmas movies, but it is one that I enjoy enough to where I typically watch it every year. It is one of those that can probably be watched at any point of the year and it wouldn’t feel any different, but since it’s set at Christmas time, it…
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Review: Red Notice
Red Notice stars three of the hottest people on the planet in what is probably going to be the start of a new Netflix franchise. The film was a smash on the streaming service and is among Netflix’s most watched films. I’m a few weeks late to the party, but I caught up with it…
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Review: Free Guy
Shawn Levy’s Free Guy is a science fiction comedy that is more successful at the science fiction part than the comedy, when it should maybe be the other way around. Here is a great-looking film with some pretty good ideas that didn’t fully hold me in its grip, but didn’t bore me either. Truth of…
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Review: DeadPool
1/2 By Christian DiMartino I’ve always liked Ryan Reynolds. Sure, his career has had some rough patches (Remember The Amityville Horror? Of course you don’t), but he always tends to bring charisma to the occasion, which is something not everyone can conjure. I always root for him to succeed, even though I fear he won’t. But now…
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Review: Self/less
By Christian DiMartino I have never been a huge fan of Tarsem Singh’s work. Visually, the man knows what he’s doing, which is also part of the problem. Pretty much all of his films (that I’ve seen at least) are all dressed up with no place to go. All of the elements are in play,…