Gianni Damaia

New York

Host at The Bad Movies Podcast

Contributor at Game Rant

if I had to be the guy that helped Jared Leto to the bathroom on the set of Morbius, I would quit.

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Anora: A Modern Cinderella in Chaos

2 months ago | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia |John Walsh

A Cinderella story for a modern age as a stripper turned rich wife must scour the streets of New York in an effort to find her husband and reaffirm her identity…There are films, and then there are films that feel as though they were singularly made for you.
The Brutalist: A Masterpiece of Cinematic Artistry

Jan 24, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia |John Walsh |Praveen Kumar

An odyssey spanning several decades as a prolific architect flees post-war Europe and navigates his own legacy amidst being hired by a high profile client…At its core, cinema is a magic trick showing the audience a card, allowing them to see it, feel it, even hear it as it shuffles back into the deck before a final prestige, a flourish of revelation, transporting them into the land where the card and only the card exists. The Brutalist is a magic movie. It is transportive cinema.
Unpacking I Saw the TV Glow: A Melancholic Exploration

Jan 21, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia |John Walsh |Praveen Kumar

Two teenagers connect over their shared adoration of a young adult 90’s television series only to find themselves increasingly lost in the dreary world around them…I go back and forth between struggling to recommend I Saw the TV Glow on account of its genre-less, confounding nature, and consequently thinking it may be the most important millennial film of the decade.
Exploring Dune: Part Two’s Visual and Emotional Depth

Jan 20, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

A continuation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic, Paul Atreides must learn the ways of the revolutionary anarchists on Arrakis in an effort to reclaim his family’s power…Dune: Part Two is what cinema is about, an unparalleled theatrical experience combining high fantasy/science fiction with emotional gravitas, explorative visuals, and groundbreaking effects.
Luca Guadagnino’s Masterful Directing in Challengers

Jan 19, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

A former tennis prodigy now turned coach must force her husband to break his curse of lost confidence by beating his once friend turned arch rival, her ex boyfriend…An absolutely propulsive exploration into the most primal form of love and lust, Challengers is a triumph of precise scripting working in tandem with explosive direction.
Nickel Boys: A Deep Dive into Trauma and Resilience

Jan 18, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

A friendship between two African-American boys as they’re forced through isolation and racist oppression in the pressurized environment of a reform school, Nickel Academy…There’s a version of Nickel Boys that exists in another universe made by another director that still manages to stir the hearts of its viewers, but in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s award winning novel, Ramell Ross’s directorial flourish makes for one of the most visually arresting pictures of the year.
Didi Movie Review: Exploring Youth and Asian American Identity

Jan 17, 2025 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

A snapshot of the summer between 8th and 9th grade as young Chris must navigate the pressures of change in the evolving world of 2008…It’s almost difficult for me to write about Didi on account of its uncanny accuracy in relaying to me a thoroughly detailed exploration of my own life.
Godzilla Minus One (2023) Movie Review

Jan 12, 2024 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

Director: Takashi YamazakiWriters: Takashi YamazakiStars: Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakura AndoIn post-war Japan, on the brink of economic and moral collapse, a disgraced kamikaze pilot finds himself at the center of an emerging existential threat as a nuclear-powered lizard roams over the land…As a lifelong Godzilla fan, I find it remarkable how a franchise so auspicious can manage such sustained success.
All of Us Strangers (2023) Movie Review

Jan 8, 2024 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

Director: Andrew HaighWriters: Andrew Haigh, Taichi YamadaStars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John GroutAn aspiring screenwriter discovers upon revisiting his childhood home that he has the unique opportunity to interact with his dead parents just as they were 30 years ago…There is an indelible quality to All of Us Strangers, one that I cannot quite seem to shake.
The Holdovers (2023) Movie Review

Jan 8, 2024 | movieburnerentertainment.org | Gianni Damaia

Director: Alexander Payne Writer: David Hemingson Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa A curmudgeon teacher is forced to stay through the holidays at a boarding school watching after the holdover children who were left behind… In today’s age of Hollywood nostalgia, it would be easy for The Holdovers to have cashed in on some 70’s/80’s iconography, passably allude to an essence of commercialized realism, make a few references to things people may feel fond of (‘Oh, yes,...