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After a tragedy occurs, what happens next? When a child loses their whole family to darkness and death, where do they go from there? When a teenager is accused of an atrocity they didn’t commit and is sentenced to life in a prison cell, what kind of person will they become? When a stranger knocks …
Continue reading FlixChatter [Guest] Review: Dark Places (2015)
I've been a fan of this long-standing franchise even from the first one by Brian De Palma. Looking back, it certainly was a more cerebral, somber affair as it took itself way too seriously. It might've been the fourth movie when the film took a decidedly lighter tone, but amped up the action to be even …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
I had been wanting to see this movie for ages but for some reason I never saw its theatrical release in my neck of the woods. Even the synopsis and the trailer had me in stitches. Well, the movie itself more than lived up to the hype, it's so well worth the wait! In fact, the reason …
Continue reading Rental Pick: What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
This review is part of Epileptic Moondancer's PSH blogathon. I selected the second last completed movie by Hoffman before his death. He died a week after the premiere of the film at the Sundance Film Festival. A Most Wanted Man A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. …
Continue reading Philip Seymour Hoffman Blogathon – A Most Wanted Man (2014) review
Boy it's quite a sweltering Summer weekend, I practically lived in my shorts & rompers these days. I love it when you found stuff in one of your old wallets, it's like getting an unexpected gift. Apparently I left two gold AMC tickets in there, so we ended up going to the movies after all. I also had …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: Reviews of ‘Ant-Man’ & ‘Cartel Land’ documentary
Marvel has been dominating the box office with their superhero flicks for almost a decade now and it’s inevitable that they’re going to bring out some of the lesser-known superheroes to the big screen. Even though it’s not well known to non comic book readers, Ant-Man movie has apparently been in development for many years. …
You know when you watch a trailer and you sigh because not only does the trailer practically gives away the entire movie, you also wish that the supporting actor played the lead role. Well, Self/less is such a movie and the actor I wish had played the lead is Matthew Goode. More on that later. …
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