Chris Klimek
@ctklimek
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Semi-pro aesthete, less-pro athlete. @washingtonpost critic, @PCHH panelist, @wcp contributor, 51% of @notanumberpod. Sweaty man, sweaty jokes.
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
Gunn’s SUPERMAN? Doggy. The franchise Donner’s SUPERMAN launched 47 years earlier? Dodgy — but still preferable to the .Sturm und Drag of the Snyderverse. Anyway, here’s a history. Didn’t have room for the Donner Cut, sorry.
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James Gunn’s upbeat new blockbuster is an attempt to reboot a superhero with a dodgy screen history.
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"A medieval knight in full armor riding a motorcycle through a misty jungle trail.". Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
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Me on #FantasticFour FIRST STEPS. When it comes to putting the First Family of Marvel Comics in the movies, the fourth time's the charm.
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In ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps,’ Marvel Studios does right by its founding superfamily.
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RT @PostOpinions: "You don’t often see this in movies, but most spies have to be boring to be good at their jobs," @ctklimek writes. https:….
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Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise has a lot to say about Washington.
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FRENCH DISPATCH. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — ASTEROID CITY. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. etc.
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Seems like there’s nothing in the world to talk about besides HERE, a reunion of FORREST GUMP wherein Bob Zemeckis once again proves he’ll never stop trying to bridge that uncanny goddamn valley. Did he not see DA FIVE BLOODS?
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The digitally savvy director’s fixed-perspective experiment takes us back to the future with mixed results.
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On the Folger's very Woolly Mammoth-looking, AI-assisted, new ROMEO AND JULIET. Love those two crazy kids.
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Folger Theatre’s new production of “Romeo and Juliet” incorporates smartphones and partisanship, with mixed results.
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Today’s incongruous (probably) double feature: JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX in the afternoon, BEING THERE in the evening.
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On MISTER LINCOLN and another show about the president elected four score and seven years after his assassination, EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND. With a link to “We an Are the Mediocre Presidents” from THE SIMPSONS for all y’all who prefer musicals.
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Two new plays, “Mister Lincoln” with Scott Bakula and “Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground,” reveal connections between the two wartime presidents.
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The complete @NotaNumberPod archive remains available for all y’all who refuse to be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.
Today marks the anniversary of the screening of The Prisoner on British TV. First screened 29th September 1967, to this day people are still taking about it. The show continues to draw new fans of all ages. A testament to what many people regard as the finest TV show of all time
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New @pchh: @craftingmystyle @ghweldon @Bedatri & I begin the decades-long process of dissecting Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making MEGALOPOLIS. The Megalon is unsafe!
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Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker behind The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, is back with his first new film in over a decade. It reimagines the fall of Rome through a futuristic...
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On Spooky Action Theater’s CRACKING ZEUS, a shaky marriage of myth and naturalism that likens the thrill of a god-on-mortal tryst to a crack high.
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The play “Cracking Zeus” brings a mythical take on a drug-ravaged neighborhood.
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George *and* Brad, that is. It's not that kind of movies. Also, I just discovered I actually reviewed something called WOLVES, years ago.
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Me on WOLFS, the pluralization-punking reunion of cranky lions-in-winter George in Brad that’s in a few cinemas for one week only before it gets dumped in the Pine Barrens of AppleTV+. Coulda used a bit more Amy Ryan, but what couldn’t?
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The “Ocean’s” trilogy headliners rejoin forces for a wild night in Manhattan.
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RT @SarahMarloff: Flattered to be joining theater critics @ctklimek and @here4andre and wonderful moderator @halvorsen for a Theatre Week p….
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Washington's reputation as a hub for vibrant arts and culture is well-deserved, with more than 80 professional companies poised to launch their 2024–2025 seasons. How can audiences pick the must-see...
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Two movies I booked far in advance & no-show’d recently are THE TERMINATOR (I’m off-book) and CALIGULA, which I’ve never seen. The multitudes I contain include Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, & Peter O’Toole, all possibly unaware they’re in a porno with a screenplay by Gore Vidal.
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“You’ve been in a serious accident, Mr. Klimek. Do you know what day it is? Who’s the current president of the United States?”
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Did GROSSE POINT BLANK kick off the sociopathic-criminal-voluntarily-in-therapy wave? It was ahead of THE SOPRANOS and ANALYZE THIS by two years….
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There are movies you go into knowing you’re older than every major character, and movies where it comes as a chilling reveal, is my point.
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