Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
Ahhh… romanza. One of the films I enjoyed most at Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival (MSPIFF) this year is this sweet, whimsical fantasy rom-com starring Darren Criss and Mãdãlina Ghenea set in the picturesque Italian Alps. Smitten! is a directorial debut from Minnesota's own Barry Morrow, whom cinephiles might recognize as the Oscar-winning writer of Rain Man …
Continue reading Indie Film Spotlight: Smitten! & Q&A w/ writer/director Barry Morrow
Directed By: Ari Aster Written By: Ari Aster Runtime: 127 minutes Hereditary begins with Annie Graham (Toni Collette), her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and her children Peter (Alex Wolf) and Charlie (Milly Shapiro) coping with the recent death of Annie's mother. Strange and terrifying events quickly begin to occur following the family matriarch's passing, hinting …
Hello everyone! It's been ages since I actually blogged about a TV series, but recently my hubby and I just binged on this Netflix Original Series ALTERED CARBON. As we're waiting for Westworld Season 2 to wrap (as we prefer to binge on a series than following it week by week), we're in the mood …
Continue reading TV Chatter – Musings about Netflix’s ALTERED CARBON
Another year, another Star Wars movie. Now that Disney owns pretty much everything, it’s to be expected that they’re going to milk the lucrative SW and Marvel franchise for all its worth. Honestly I haven’t been following much about all the behind-the-scene dramas, apart from the fact that the original directors Phil Lord and Chris …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – SOLO: A Star Wars story
I'm still playing catch-up with MSPFF a month after it's over. Well that's life, always a juggling act between my full time 9-5 job, blogging, writing, and just life's business in general. I still have a few MSPIFF interviews to be transcribed, so stay tuned for those! Today we've got reviews of two more documentaries …
Post by Vitali Gueron In February 2016, our own Ruth wrote a review of the movie Deadpool by titling her post “10 reasons Deadpool movie won me over” and she made a top 10 list praising the movie. I went ahead and re-read her post, and then I realized – almost everything she listed in her …
Continue reading The Flixlist: 10 reasons ‘Deadpool 2’ won us over… again
Lynne Ramsay’s movie making career could’ve ended after she abruptly quit Jane's Got A Gun and sued that movie’s producers. That kind of public dispute between a director and producers probably would’ve ended many filmmakers’ career in Hollywood. But after a seven-year hiatus, Ramsay is back with another dark-themed film that could put her career …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: You Were Never Really Here (2018)
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