Category: Blog
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Blog: 98th Oscars Catch-Up
So with the 98th Oscars upon us, a significant chunk of the nominated films I have either already written reviews for, Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, or they made it into my Best of 2025 list, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Bugoina. So let’s examine the leftover nominees and some other categories and my Oscar…
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Blog: Mini-review – The Bride!
3 outta 5 The Bride! earns bonus points for being incredibly weird. Like so weird at times it gets a bit off putting and incomprehensible as the leads spend a lot of it yelling in undead rage every few minutes. But they’re both interesting actors and more compelling than the various competing subplots and characters…
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Best of 2025 Films
Honourable Mentions: KPop Demon Hunters, 28 Years Later, A Minecraft Movie, Thunderbolts*, The Naked Gun, Predator: Badlands, Superman, Black Bag, John Candy: I Like Me, Companion, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Hamnet, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Long Walk 10. Mickey 17 Director Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) provides a sci-fi tale of space travel,…
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Blog: Whole Bloody Affair musings
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair was basically an unseen cinematic legend, only shown a few times at Quentin Tarantino’s personal theatre, until the entire four-and-a-half-hour version was released a few weeks ago. It is basically just like the two volumes back-to-back but with some new flourishes. But the best thing about seeing it as…
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Blog: Ballerina (mini review)
Just trying a blog style mini review of Ballerina, although the ad campaign is giving it a long winded unweildly title of From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Probably to get folks to see it for a John Wick universe (which apparently isn’t working very well if ticket sales are any indication, even though…
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Blog: 97th Oscars Catch-Up
With more than a few 2024 films under my belt, I have tried to play catch-up with a few of the Academy Award Nominees, finding some surprises, some good, some bad, some really interesting and some a drag. Then I bet on a few and try to make some cash! Best Animated Film Nominees Having…
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Eulogy for my Dad, Frank DeSantis
(This was a speech/eulogy for my dad I made at his celebration of life, adding here with more extra pictures) I would like to thank you all for coming to this celebration of the life of my father, Frank DeSantis. He has had a great impact upon our lives, in the community, upon his associates…
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Blog: Oscars Catch-Up
Looking at the 96th Academy Awards announcement, I have posted about most of them with reviews for two best animated nominated films, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Boy and the Heron. Five Best picture nominees, Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Holdovers, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon all made it into the Top 10…
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Blog: Get In the Robot – Evaneglion Watching
My past few months has been a bit of anime binge, mostly supplied by Netflix, starting with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (which was great) and then into Arcane: League of Legends (also great but maybe not technically anime but it did win Best Animated Program in 2021 beating out some seriously good competition). Then the big watch…
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Blog: Trippin’ ’round the Spider-Verse
I’ve been spinning the dial of the various Spider-Man animated series as a lead-up to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (and reposted my Into the Spider-Verse review here). Mostly because a few of these versions (Unlimited and Spectacular) are in Across the Spider-Verse and with an infinite multiverse everything is canon, even if they don’t appear.…
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