Ever since her breakout role in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike has become an even more compelling performer who often portrays brilliant real-life heroines. A couple of years ago, I thought her performance in A Private War as fearless war-correspondence Marie Colvin. Well, she plays yet another Marie in this film, Marie Curie, the Polish-born Nobel …
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FlixChatter Review: Museum Town (2020)
Directed by Jennifer Trainer Narrated by Meryl Streep Museum Town is the first feature documentary from award-winning journalist Jennifer Trainer. It chronicles the history of Mass MoCA, the world’s largest contemporary art museum in the world and North Adams, the struggling Massachusetts town it resides in. Trainer herself is one of the co-founders of Mass …
NOVEMBER 2020 Viewing Recap + Movie of the Month
Wow!! It's actually December!! Well folks, only a month left in 2020… the year that'll definitely go down in history as one of the weirdest, most challenging year ever for many of us. I don't know about you, but I never thought I'd experience a pandemic in my lifetime, but hey surely it isn't the …
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FlixChatter Review: UNCLE FRANK (2020)
I had the privilege of seeing this film at Twin Cities Film Fest last October, one of the three films I saw on the big screen. I had come into it blindly, not having seen a trailer or even read in details what it's about at all or even seen the trailer. I find that …
FlixChatter Review: THE NEST (2020)
I saw The Nest on a screener thanks to IFC Films and the premise intrigued me immediately. Jude Law and Carrie Coon Life play husband and wife whose already-fragile marriage take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor. The film opens when the family still resides in the US. Rory O'Hara (Law) is …
TV Review: THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)
The Queen’s Gambit (2020 – Netflix) Directed by Scott Frank Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Moses Ingram, Bill Camp, Harry Melling, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Christiane Seidel, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd Nearly a month removed from debuting on Netflix, there’s no shortage of publicity and buzz surrounding this 7 part mini-series. During these pandemic times with nearly everyone (hopefully) …
FlixChatter Review: MR. JONES (2019)
I've always been a fan of journalism film and this film shed a light on a horrifying event that I wasn't familiar about – the Holodomor, the man-made famine-genocide in Ukraine in early 1930s that killed many Ukranians. The story is told through the eyes of Gareth Jones (James Norton), hence the title, a Welsh …
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