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Christian’s Christmas: Elf (2003)
By Christian DiMartino It had been 10 years since I’d seen Jon Favreau’s Elf. I’m sure some people watch it every winter, and that’s great. For me, it was a movie I’d always liked, but… my sophomore year of high school, I was forced to watch it in three different classrooms. And that did it…
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A Trip Back To: The Happening (2008)
“Cheese and crackers!” Recent Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (Succession) is the one who has the misfortune of uttering this exclamation in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. Strong plays one Private Auster, who, under M. Night’s direction, almost acts as if he’s on the spectrum. Anyways, upon finding out that the next town over has a…
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First Time Watch: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Something has always kept me from seeing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. That something being the length. Not just from the title, but the runtime itself. Yeah, it’s two hours and 40 minutes, and I have also seen The Irishman a few times, Magnolia a plethora of times, and so on.…
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