Tag: movie review
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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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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.