At first I almost brushed this off because of that clichéd title, but I was curious when I learned that it's The Office-alum B.J. Novak’s directorial debut. He also wrote the screenplay and plays the lead role, quite the triple threat. Vengeance is part fish-out-of-water dark comedy and part detective story, which in and of …
Month: July 2022
FlixChatter Review: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
When I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months prior to its release, I was immediately swept up by the premise and its leading lady. It’s about time the venerable Lesley Manville gets the lead role, and Mrs Harris is tailor-made for her. I had no idea this movie is based on …
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FlixChatter Review: The Gray Man (2022)
Another week, another big, expensive but soulless Netflix blockbuster. It’s no wonder they’re losing subscribers by the thousands with this kind of quantity over quality mentality. It doesn’t help that the streaming subscription is getting more and more expensive, it’ll cost us $15.49 per month in August. Undoubtedly Netflix is seeking a lucrative action franchise to …
FlixChatter Review: Jordan Peele’s NOPE(2022)
A movie trailer’s main function is to advertise a future coming attraction. In essence, it is a commercial, announcing to the masses of so and so’s new movie, starring so and so, and so forth. But film trailers can also be an art form. The worst example of this is the annoying trailer for Bullet …
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FlixChatter Review: My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes)
I saw this movie over a year ago at Minneapolis-St Paul Film Festival and finally, it gets a US distribution in July. Ever since I saw Call My Agent! on Netflix a few years ago, I absolutely adore most of the cast, including Laure Calamy who played Noémie. Here she plays Antoinette, a school teacher …
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FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s PERSUASION (2022)
Since this movie is clearly made for Gen Z and the supposedly woke audience, let me just say that most involved in this production did NOT understand the assignment. As I said in my trailer post, I was open-minded about this Netflix adaptation, but within 10 minutes I realize they’ve stripped everything I love about …
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FlixChatter Review: Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
What are crawdads you say? Yes, I had to look this up. The only other reference to crawdads in a film that I can remember was in the Coen Brothers’ highly funny Raising Arizona (1987). Turns out they are crayfish – termed ‘crawdads’ in the central and southern regions of the U.S. In this film …
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