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The Starlight Film Journal: February 2025
It took us two months, but hey I can actually talk about films that released this year now. The overlying themes of my February movie-watching was more of the same as last month: catching up on Oscar-nominated movies and getting through the last of my 2024 watchlist before I start writing up my Best of…
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Review: Captain America: Brave New World – The Fun, Yet Flawed Return of Sam Wilson
We’re officially approaching six years since Sam Wilson was handed the shield and mantle of Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame. One of the pivotal emotional moments of a film that wrapped up eleven years of storytelling and sent the Marvel Cinematic Universe into a new era.
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The Starlight Film Journal: July 2024
Yes, you’re reading this right. This is indeed a recap of my July Film Journal published in the middle of October. The last few months have been rather hectic, and my time has been spent away from contributing to The Starlight Journal
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Time to Do Some Catching Up
It’s been a rather quiet few months here at The Starlight Journal. To be honest with you all, keeping up with this blog hasn’t been at forefront of my mind throughout the summer and into the fall. I have been keeping up with watching films and have been very active on my Letterboxd page, but…
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Review: Joker: Folie à Deux – Mad, Messy Love
Oh boy. This has not happened in a long time. The urge to write an entire review as soon as I left the movie theater. I just need to talk about Joker.
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The Starlight Film Journal: June 2024
Not only did I watch several movies that I loved and did not walk out with a sense of feeling underwhelmed, but all that talk of the age of the movie theater dying fell right on its face when Inside Out 2 did gangbusters box-office numbers and broke record after record, including already joining the…
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The Starlight Film Journal: May 2024
May was a month of change and progress in my own personal life, but for movies and what I was watching, it was a rather drab month.
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The Starlight Film Journal: April 2024
Here at The Starlight Journal, we are nothing but timely. We’ve almost reached the end of May, and here I am still writing up my year-end lists I started back in March, and am just now getting to our recap of what I watched in April.
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Review: Challengers: Zendaya Serves Up An Oscar-Worthy Performance
I was able to see Luca Guadagnino’s newest film Challengers a few days early, as my theater had an early screening of the film ahead of its wide release this coming weekend. Already known recently for films like Call Me By Your Name and Bones and All, Guadagnino has put himself on the map as…
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The Starlight Film Journal: March 2024
Much of my March was spent watching Dune, thinking about Dune, draining my bank account on Dune-related things, and dragging my feet on finishing my Best of 2023 list article (it is coming soon don’t worry! I just have not been much of a writing mood this month!) My Film Journal for this month reflects…
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Dune: Part Two Is So Good That I Have Trouble Putting It Into Words
I am a few hours removed from my second viewing of Dune: Part Two. Both times I walked out knowing I had just seen something extraordinarily special, it’s one of those rare movies that on your first watch, you can just tell you’re watching something that’s going to change the way you think about movies.…
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The Starlight Film Journal: February 2024
We are now two months into the year and rapidly approaching this year’s Oscars. My month of movie-watching reflects the impending award season greatly. February wasn’t exactly the strongest month at the movies, films that were among my most anticipated of the year disappointed, and films we didn’t have much for in expectations somehow fell…
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Review: Madame Web: Seeing A Future Better Than This Movie
My commitment to watching just about everything associated with Spider-Man on film meant that I would be spending my Valentine’s Day at the theater watching Madame Web. Sony’s newest installment in their attempt to create their own shared universe of Spider-Man characters without actually featuring the titular webhead
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The Starlight Film Journal: January 2024
January for me was a month of catching up on releases I didn’t get to catch last year, a lot of which being award contenders, with a mini Ryan Gosling marathon smack dab in the middle of the month as the cherry on top. That in itself, counts as a moment of healing. As January…
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The Starlight Film Journal: June 2023
*This article was written prior to the start of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. While I originally planned to keep the article drafted, I chose to publish the piece. In solidarity with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, no reviews of films released after July 14 will be published on The Starlight Journal until the conclusion of the…
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Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Give ‘Em Hell, Indiana Jones
For a period, it seemed we may not get a fifth Indy movie after all, with constant release date changes and the departure of Steven Spielberg landing the film firmly in development hell, but finally eleven years after the Lucasfilm acquisition, we have ourselves The Dial of Destiny as a swan song for the Indiana…
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Review: Asteroid City: A Story of 3 (Varying) Acts
Sometimes I feel like a bit of a fraud calling myself a “movie guy” without being super well-versed in Wes Anderson’s movies. It’s not due to any disinterest in his films or dislike of his particular style, I just simply haven’t taken the time to watch most of his filmography.
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Review: The Flash: A Big Change to the DC Universe?
Since James Gunn announced his overarching plan to reset the DC Extended Universe, The Flash has been touted as the film that will set this plan into motion. With the film’s usage of time-traveling and multiverse storytelling, two increasingly prevalent themes in modern comic-book movies, it seemed like the perfect film to do so.
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The Starlight Film Journal: May 2023
2023 has turned my love of watching films into a more of a hobby than ever. As a longtime Letterboxd addict, I’ve become accustomed to logging whatever movie I’m seeing as soon as I leave the theater, though this year I decided to take it a step further and start a film journal of every…
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Review: The Boogeyman: Star Wars Alum Bring the Scares
As children, many of us were afraid of the dark. The Boogeyman takes this fear and exploits it for all it’s worth, crafting something that at its best was something quite terrifying.
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Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is A Multiversal Masterpiece
Alright, let’s do this one last time…. Again.
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