After being underwhelmed by the last holiday comedy I reviewed (Office Christmas Party), I was not particularly enthusiastic about seeing another one- especially one written by Jonah Hill and starring James Franco. Not that they aren’t both talented, but the majority of their collaborations have been stoner comedies, which have never really been my thing. …
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Rental Pick: Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016)
As I've mentioned in this post, I absolutely LOVE the vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows. It's also written and directed by Taika Waititi, who's been quite a force to be reckoned with as a filmmaker, so I'm glad he's getting noticed by Hollywood! Right from the opening scene when the 13-year-old Ricky is dropped off by …
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Guest Review: Office Christmas Party (2016)
I haven’t been a huge fan of recent comedy films. There are a few I’ve enjoyed, but mostly they blur together in a mess of pop culture references, gross-out humor, and lazy sexual innuendo. This is exactly what I expected of Office Christmas Party, and that’s exactly what the movie delivered. However, there were a …
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FlixChatter Review: ALLIED (2016)
So this is a film that has quite a pedigree. Starting w/ the director Robert Zemeckis, who have made some of the best films like Back To The Future, Romancing The Stone, Forrest Gump, Contact, etc. plus the two A-listers, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. I have to admit my main draw was Zemeckis and Cotillard, as …
FlixChatter Review: ARRIVAL (2016)
Sci-fi films involving aliens coming to earth is a dime a dozen. So it's so refreshing to see a film that treads a familiar ground, yet still manages to be original and truly thought-provoking. Based on the short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, the premise of ARRIVAL is deceptively simple. One day, …
FlixChatter Review: Moonlight (2016)
It's been nearly a month since I saw Moonlight, yet I still constantly think about it. I had heard the buzz coming from Sundance and TIFF prior to its regional premiere at TCFF, and the premise of a coming-of-age story spanning three time periods intrigues me. The film is written and directed by Barry Jenkins, …
Guest Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)
It’s going to be hard for me not to turn this into a fifty-page essay, because I am an enormous Harry Potter fan. I have been since I was ten years old. I’ve re-read all the books more times than I can remember, I wrote so much embarrassingly bad fan-fiction as a preteen, and I’ve …
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