The Flix List: 10+ year-old films that deserve a second look

Have you ever seen a film and question why it’s not as well known or gets the respect it deserves? I consider myself a film geek and have seen several films throughout the years, while some I saw deserves all the accolades it received and many deserves to be forgotten. But I thought these films …

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Merry Christmas! Five Favorite Christmas Moments in Movies

It's Christmas eve and my hubby and I just came back from spending one night in Duluth, which is a couple hours north of Twin Cities. We specifically went there to see Bentleyville right at Canal Park, the largest FREE Christmas lights display in the USA (perhaps even the world) where you could tour over 4 …

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Music Break: 5 Favorite TV shows’ Opening Credit Themes

My hubby was listening to Spotify the other day and he was playing some really great music, which turned out to be scores from some TV series. It might have been the Westworld one that made me take notice, and of course it's by one of my fave composers, Ramin Djawadi. I remember growing up …

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Five Movies. Five Words – Vol. 5

Well, it's been more than a year since I did the last edition of Five Movies in Five Words. Seems that the only blog series I managed to keep up with is Five for the Fifth 🙂 I really should do this more often, maybe a few times a year, as it's a fun challenge to …

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A Thanksgiving Post: 24 cinematic things I’m thankful for in 2016

To all my friends celebrating Thanksgiving today… I hope that you’re all enjoying yourselves, whether it's time spent together with family/friends or just chillin' with your loved ones (like my hubby and I). It's nice to be able to sleep in today and going to dinner/movies later today. To those in other parts of the …

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Spotlight on 10 great documentaries – and they’re all playing at 2016 TCFF!

Just a few days aways until the seventh Twin Cities Film Fest begins on October 19! The 11-day cinematic marathon, running October 19 - October 29, will showcase 100+ films. It's definitely great to be a film lover living in Minneapolis! I've blogged about some of the films I'm super excited about, but I wanted to talk about the documentaries specifically, …

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Counting Down to 2016 Twin Cities Film Fest! Spotlight on the eclectic indie films I can’t wait to see

TCFF is less than a week away! Those who've been reading my blog for a while knows I've been covering TCFF since its inception seven years ago. It was only a 5-day festival and it was split between two different locations in Minneapolis. Well now TCFF has made its home at Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatres in …

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