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#1 – The Crespodome

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In the debut episode of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris and Drew discuss the Netflix Instant Pick of the Week, they review Gangster Squad and Zero Dark Thirty during the recap of the weekend’s box office results, they look ahead to the new movies on DVD and in theaters this week, and then they enter the Crespodome, where they go deep with a review of the films of 2012 and then a quick rundown of the recent Oscar nominations. It is a packed episode so butter up that popcorn and get comfortable!

Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Looking saucy while looking for terrorists…

What an intense movie. “Zero Dark Thirty” (a title which never, ever gets explained at any point or in any way) starts out with audio snippets of emergency calls from New York City on September 11, 2001, and after sixty to ninety grueling seconds of this we finally cut to our film’s first scene – an intense interrogation in which a Saudi fella gets what is known in the industry as “the business,” brutal treatment and humiliation only stopped so that questions could be shouted at him. And off we go, an epic movie about the multinational manhunt for infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden, and while it starts off quite grueling, it eventually settles into the familiar rhythm of a typical political thriller, albeit with the added dimension of this being based on a very true and very well known event in our very immediate history.Continue Reading …

Review: ‘Broken City’

Broken City

In the grand tradition of the political investigative thrillers of the 1970s, “Broken City” is a throwback to those movies about corrupt city officials making shady deals while some sap is hired to do some small task, only to have that sap get to peek behind and attempt to throw the whole thing out of whack. Cause you see, these saps never like being used as saps, and it pisses ’em off when it does. This goes beyond the 1970s, think of the pot-boiled detective novels of the 30s/40s, in which the down on their luck detective get hired to do some dirty work, only to discover the work was far dirtier than they were led to believe, causing them to have to dig deep to make sure things get sorted out correctly. That’s “Broken City.”Continue Reading …

Review: ‘The Last Stand’

Come with me if you want meager box office returns…

Making his return to what made him popular to begin with, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in his first leading role in an action movie in ten years, this time playing not a homicidal cyborg from the future nor an undercover cop disguised as a kindergarten teacher nor a barbarian nor a pregnant man but a small town sheriff, presiding over a workforce comprised of three deputies keeping watch over a town that seems to consist of one main street and one intersection, on which every business is conveniently located. To say that Arnold’s newest action movie is a small one is a bit of an understatement, but what better way to make your once and future action star seem larger than life all over again?Continue Reading …

Street team pics!

A hit with the ladies…

And here is round one of our streem team pics, as folks around the world show some love to Cinema Crespodiso!

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Netflix Pick for 1/21/13 – ‘Primer’

Shane Carruth and David Sullivan in Primer…

From my original write up on Examiner.com:

“Good thing this movie is short (77 minutes total running time) because it takes multiple viewings to truly start appreciating the seeds sown in this film. And if right now you’re thinking, “Man, movie plots are all the same and predictable and I can follow anything you throw at me,” then consider yourself challenged. Watch Primer once and tell me you completely understand the depths that this movie delves into. And on the flip side, if you are the type of person that always asks questions during movies and has trouble following films like The Whole Nine Yards and Ernest Goes to Jail (what with the Ernest P. Worrell lookalike and all), then don’t even worry about trying to follow along with what’s going down. Just allow yourself to be swept up in the pure movie making of it all, the tension, the suspense, the whole feeling of “what the eff is going on?” By the end of the movie, you may not be too sure about what you have just seen, but you will know that you’ve seen something great.”

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Netflix Pick for 1/14/13 – ‘Miller’s Crossing’

A moody character in a moody picture…

You can not go wrong with the Coen Brothers and you definitely can not go wrong with “Miller’s Crossing,” the bad ass prohibition era Coen Brothers mobster movie. A mob flunky (Gabriel Byrne) works to keep the peace between his mob boss (Albert Finney) and the rival mob boss (Jon Polito) and maybe at the same time he can work out a way to pay off his mounting gambling debts while working these two opposing factions against each other.

Welcome!

Like a strong cup of coffee in the middle of the night…

A quick introduction:

My name is Chris Crespo, and this is my website. Here you will be able to find all things Chris Crespo related, and as you will see this will encompass a number of things. An Orlando movie critic for several years on Examiner.com and various other outlets here and there, I have a large number of review already up on my Examiner column, so if you can’t find it here, it will be there.