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REVIEW: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

AlexGherzo | Apr 18, 2024 | 4

Imagine Inglourious Basterds without the intelligent plotting, the engaging dialogue, the captivating characters, the witty humor, the expert pacing, the unbearable tension, or the palpable stakes, but with an undue smugness and the tone of the Suicide Squad movies, and you’ve got a good picture...

REVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023)

AlexGherzo | Jul 20, 2023 | 2

Oppenheimer is a masterpiece. Usually, I don’t like to throw words like that around so soon after seeing a movie, but when this one ends, you’ve got to exhale. This a three-hour-long film about people discussing theoretical physics that’s more exhilarating than many thrillers, filled with basi...

REVIEW: Chevalier (2023)

virginiakublawi | Apr 23, 2023 | 0

This weekend saw the release of Chevalier, the latest musician biopic. This time, the gimmick is that it’s a period piece telling the lost life story of a black classical musician and composer. I didn’t know anything about Chevalier; when I first heard the title, I assumed it referred to...

REVIEW: American Crime Story: Impeachment – Episode 10, “The Wilderness”

virginiakublawi | Nov 10, 2021 | 0

*SPOILERS* In “The Wilderness,” Monica lands a book deal to pay off her lawyers. Ken Starr’s report is delivered to the steps of Congress. The report is also posted online for the reading pleasure of Ann Coulter. Contrary to Bill Clinton’s advisors’ claims, the Republicans begin drafting...

Nolan’s Next May Nab Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon

AlexGherzo | Nov 3, 2021 | 0

A spy and a superhero may help develop the atomic bomb. Deadline reports that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s next movie, Oppenheimer. Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film is about Oppenheimer an...

REVIEW: American Crime Story: Impeachment – Episode 9 “The Grand Jury”

virginiakublawi | Nov 3, 2021 | 0

*SPOILERS* “The Grand Jury” finds Linda obsessively following her media coverage. Allison goes to Linda’s hotel room and asks her to come home; Linda declines. Monica prepares for her testimony, and her mother remarks that it’s unfair that she has to go to the courthouse after the President ...