Classic Flix Review: La Jetée (1962) by Rockerdad

Lately, I’ve been preaching to RTM the benefits of Netflix streaming. Recently acquiring a Blu Ray/Netflix player (for cheap), I’ve spent many a night since checking out Netflix’s Watch Instantly library. While the typical duds are to be found, there were some surprisingly good to great movies on the catalog as well as some must-see …

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Random Thoughts: Golden Globes, Stephen Kings ’09 Flix Picks, NBC Chuck

A completely random post for a change as I don't really have any new review nor time to finish some of my draft posts tonight. Golden Globes Awards is coming to our telly in 2 weeks, January 17 to be exact (and I've checked with hubby that the Vikings game is on at noon so …

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Conspicuous Trailer of the Week: Knight & Day

Well, this is something I've never done before in my blog, feature a Tom Cruise movie! I used to like the guy back in Top Gun time (well who wasn't?), thought he was good in Minority Report & Jerry McGuire and terrific in Last Samurai. But his couch-jumping antics & all that scientology stuff are …

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Upcoming Flix Spotlight: The Expendables

Every once in a while comes a movie where simply the cast alone gets me intrigued. Well, The Expendables definitely did it for me. I first learned of it a few months ago when a British film magazine had a picture of Sylvester Stallone with his hands in the air on top of corpses of …

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Everyone’s a Critic Part 2: Reviews from FlixChatter Readers

It's Complicated by Becky (Prairiegirl) .... This is definitely the best baby boomer generation movie I've ever seen. I could relate to so many of the scenes it was scary! The audience was packed with them (including me), but quite a few older and many younger too. It keeps you in stitches throughout, especially the …

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Goodbye 2009. Welcome 2010!

Well, before it's too late, let me say HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you readers! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and been enjoying the holiday break. This is the first time I actually take more than a week worth of stay-cation and I must say having a mellow holiday season is very, …

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