John DeSando
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for WCBE 90.5 FM
- Top 5M sites
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Heart of the Beast (opens the original)
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“I love you so goddamn much, Odin” Belmont (Brad Pitt to the dog, Uber) You will love this survival so much as well. Unadorned as it is with surplus, superficial nostalgia and full as it is with realism from the Alaskan wilderness (actually dynamic New Zealand). Not an original plot point anywhere but such feeling coming out of the camera that it feels like no one else ever depicted the loneliness and danger of being stranded after your small Cessna crashed. Special Forces (ret) James Belmont an
The End of Oak Street (opens the original)
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“Holy s..t, they’re doing it!” Denise (Anne Hathaway) David Robert Mitchell’s (It Follows) The End of Oak Street is not always as amusing as when the heroine exclaims she sees dinosaurs fornicating, but it has a certain charm wherein you can see the writer/director’s tongue firmly in his cheek. With whiffs of Spielberg and his family-oriented Jurassic Park, this sci-fi gives summer thrills while hinting at the rot in suburban America that falsely feels it is protected from home invasion. Denise
The Invite (opens the original)
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Welcome back Woody Allen-like romantic comedy with enough screwball dialogue to challenge Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell as we throw in Neal Simon and Mike Nichols. The screwball is fully satisfactory as it is relevant to a modern audience used to filmmakers mixing up meaning and emotions more complex than the best of ‘30’s and ‘40’s comedies. A youngish couple Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Olivia Wilde) prepare to receive new couple from upstairs Hawk (Edward Norton) and Pina (Penelope Cruz). W
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