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Review: ‘Kevin Hart: What Now?’ Is Just More of the Same
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Kevin Hart’s latest film should act as a warning to comedians everywhere: if you want to be original, don’t open your concert films with the...
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Opinion: In This Election We Need Woody Allen More Than Ever
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Crisis in Six Scenes, Woody Allen’s first time helming a television program, recently debuted on Amazon Prime to harsh reviews. Its most...
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Review: ‘Manchester By The Sea’ Is a Simple Triumph
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer In the early scenes of Manchester By The Sea we watch Lee Chandler, played by Casey Affleck, wander through his mundane existence as a...
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Q&A: Director Kenneth Lonergan Talks About ‘Manchester By The Sea’& Being...
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Kenneth Lonergan, the legendary playwright behind ‘This Is Our Youth’, has enjoyed equal success after pivoting to filmmaking. After the New...
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Golden Globe Nominations: Marvel Outperforms Scorsese
Christian Ziolkowski ’19 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer When it comes to this year’s Golden Globe nominations, nothing is as it seems. Except for the stuff that is. While the Hollywood Foreign...
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Opinion: What a Waste of a Lovely Night – Why La La Land Deserved to Win
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer This past December, as the atrocity known as 2016 was coming to an end, La La Land rolled into our multiplexes and swept Hollywood off of...
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Oscars 2017 Review: Jimmy Kimmel is a Throwback Host
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer If you find yourself hosting the Oscars, it’s never a good sign when you are not featured in the opening number. So, when the 89th Academy...
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Review: ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Would Have Been Awesome in 1995
By Christian Ziolkowski ‘20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Another year, another Noah Baumbach movie. Another talky comedy about selfish people realizing that they don’t have life figured out. But...
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Review: ‘Daddy’s Home 2’– Too Many Daddies
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Movies Staff Writer Daddy’s Home 2 is exactly what you think it is. Nobody is reinventing the wheel here. 2015’s Daddy’s Home ended with Will Ferrell’s...
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Review: Wonder Wheel Is a New Take on Woody Allen’s Favorite Tropes
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Movies Staff Writer In 1987’s Radio Days, Woody Allen takes a funny, nostalgic look at his childhood in Brooklyn. Using an anthology style reminiscent of...
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Friday Night at Boston Underground
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer The Boston Underground Film Festival is in its 20th year of delivering weird, twisted cinema to the Brattle Theater, and Friday night’s...
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Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Resonates with Today with its Political Message
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer In 2018, trust in elected officials is seemingly at a low point. Regardless of one’s political affiliations, the notion that politicians...
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Review: ‘Rampage’ Is the ‘Citizen Kane’ of Video Game Movies
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer To say expectations for Rampage were low would be an understatement as big as George the gorilla. For the past three decades, Hollywood has...
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Review: ‘Tully’s Deceiving Simplicity
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Depending on one’s metric for success, Tully can be considered an artistic triumph or a cheap piece of manufactured cynicism disguised as...
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Review: “Venom” Has Good Intentions, If Nothing Else
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. So here goes nothing: Venom is not the worst comic book movie ever made. In this...
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Review: “Halloween” Perfects the Formula
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer In this contemporary Hollywood environment, where risk is frowned upon and intellectual property is king, nobody seems to know how to make...
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Review: ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ Will Charm Old Fans, If Not, New Ones
Christian Ziolkowski ’20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer When Fox released Deadpool in 2016, it was shocking to see a superhero movie that wasn’t family friendly. The sex-and-profanity-filled movie...
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Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Is A Massive Improvement
Christian Ziolkowski ‘20 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer It’s hard to describe a Best Picture winner as a good first step in a film career. For many, receiving the most important Academy Award...
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