Clip Spotlight: Brett Favre in “There’s Something About Mary”

In honor of the Vikings' playoff game today against Dallas Cowboys, I thought it'd be fun to post this classic scene from There's Something About Mary where Brett Favre played Mary's (Cameron Diaz) boyfriend. I'm still working to embed this video but you can watch the clip here This movie is such a riot. "What …

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Casting & Misc. News: FlixChatter’s Highlights

Happy Friday, folks! Let me start off with some updates to a couple of news items I've mentioned in the past, so let's get on 'em, shall we? Back in November, I talked about Danny Boyle's mountaineering-gone-wrong tale 127 Hours about an American adventurer who had to amputate his own arm stuck under a boulder …

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FlixChatter Spotlight: The Red Riding Trilogy

I came across this when I overheard hubby playing the trailer on Apple site. I don't like scary movies, I'm not talking about horror which I detest, but even some intense mystery stuff would haunt me for days. This one sounds like it might be that kind of film, see the trailer below for yourself. …

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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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Casting & Misc. News: FlixChatter Highlights

Looks like the last FlixChatter's news post in 2009 will end with some bizarre ones. So let's get to 'em, shall we? Pride & Prejudice meets Zombies It doesn't get more bizarre than this. Based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the movie will focus on heroine Elizabeth Bennet's quest for love …

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FlixChatter’s Sherlock Holmes Review

Let's just say one thing for sure, this isn't your grandfather's Sherlock Holmes. This version breathes the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but purists beware that Guy Ritchie definitely takes some, ok a lot of liberties with his interpretation of the legendary detective. Reportedly, Madonna's ex is a Holmes aficionado who's clearly been …

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