Lists for the listaholic anonymous amongst us, top ten or otherwise
Most people who know me know I have an old school taste when it comes to music. I basically only listen to genres. One is classical music – my radio dial goes back and forth from MPR news to Classical MPR 99.5, and I'm not ashamed that I owned two Sarah Brightman CDs. The other is movie music [natch] My CD changers …
Continue reading Music Break: Five soundtracks from 2015 I’m currently obsessed with
I've been dreaming of Sundance all week! I had planned on going initially, I even had the press application ready to go last December but I decided it was cutting it too close to my Christmas trip to the East Coast. But I've been closely following Sundance and reading some of the buzz/reviews. “The Sundance …
Continue reading 12 films debuting at Sundance 2016 I can’t wait to see
I have to confess that since I visited Paris a couple of years ago, I've become slightly obsessed with French history. Sofia Coppola's retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen promises a character study of the title role instead of a historical account that led to the fall of Versailles. I have no problem with that, after all I'm not expecting a documentary of …
Continue reading January 2016 BLIND SPOT: Marie Antoinette (2006)
Ok, so I dropped the ball last year on this Blindspot series as I wanted to spend more time on my script. I've also blogged a lot less for the same reason and will continue doing so until my script is done. But given how much I've enjoyed discovering *old classics* or acclaimed films I've …
It's THAT time of the year again… time for film bloggers to rake our brains to do the tricky-but-fun process of selecting the best films they've seen all year. I was going to post this on December 31 but due to my East Coast trip I had to delay it until I'm back home. Suffice to say …
Continue reading 2015 Recap: Top 10 Best + 5 Worst Movies of the Year
Well, it's been almost two weeks since the 2015 Twin Cities Film Fest wrapped. I knew the tough part would be selecting the top 10 and so I took my time posting this. I use the same criteria when selecting my top 10 films from a given year. So when I say ‘top movies’ it’s sort …
Welcome to FlixChatter's primary blog series! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. Well, since SPECTRE is released this weekend here in the US, …
Continue reading Five for the Fifth: Special James Bond Edition
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