FlixChatter Review: JAY KELLY (2025) – Clooney effortlessly embodies a world-renowned movie star, but this is truly Sandler’s film

Hollywood loves making films about itself, and this time it’s writer/director Noah Baumbach’s turn. The Netflix original film has an excellent cast, with George Clooney as a world-famous movie star in his 60s, Jay Kelly, and Adam Sandler as his dedicated manager, Ron Sukenick. Now, seeing this casting makes me think the 64-year-old Clooney essentially …

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FlixChatter Double Reviews: neo-Western drama ‘Rebuilding’ and musical fantasy ‘Kiss of The Spider Woman’

Welcome to another Double Reviews edition. While I usually find a common thread when I combine reviews, this time I deliberately chose movies that are completely different from each other. Variety is the spice of life, after all. So here goes! Rebuilding   Josh O’Connor has become one of my favorite actors since his breakout …

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Musings on Golden Globes 2026 Nominations – Glaring Snubs + Great Surprises

Happy Monday, everyone!! It's been a hectic day with several meetings, so I completely forgot that the Golden Globes nominations were announced. Unsurprisingly, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another led with nine nominations, followed by Sentimental Value (8 noms) and Sinners (7 noms). I've seen all three of them, and they're all great films, …

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Double reviews of female-led dramas: Rosemead (Lucy Liu) & If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Rose Byrne)

Hello everyone!! We’re in the midst of a hectic award season, and I’m continually playing catch-up to reviews. Well, in order to save time, I’m going to be posting more combined shorter reviews through the end of January. While I usually find a common thread when I combine reviews, this one shares a theme of …

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FlixChatter Review: Train Dreams (2025) – A stunning, pensive historical drama anchored in Joel Edgerton’s quiet, soulful performance

The award-nominated duo behind SING SING, Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley, crafts another phenomenal cinematic project, Train Dreams. They both love crafting narratives that draw from real-life elements and settings. Instead of confining the story indoors in an active prison, they set this film mainly in the great outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in …

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FlixChatter Review: Zootopia 2 (2025) – This animated sequel is just as awesome as the first, thanks to a clever script + a fun voice cast.

It’s been nearly a decade since the original Zootopia was released in 2016. I’m surprised that it took this long for the sequel to come out, given that the original was a critical and commercial success. It earned over $1 billion internationally (with a budget of $150 million) and won an Oscar for Best Animated …

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FlixChatter’s NOVEMBER Viewing Recap, Mini Review of LOVE+WAR documentary, and Movie of the Month

Happy December, everyone! We're down to the last month of 2025, can you believe it??  To my American friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice to get four days off, though they went by too fast 😆 We finally got snow ❄️ this past Saturday, enough to be plowable and …

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