Special thanks to Iba from I Luv Cinema for her Sundance review! Ah, the western - on its surface, it would seem it is not to my favorite cinematic genre. But upon further examination, I must admit it has produced some of my all time favorite films (High Noon, Unforgiven, The Searchers, The Ox Bow …
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Weekend Roundup & Kingsman: The Secret Service review
Valentine's Weekend is awesome this year as it's a company holiday on Monday for President's Day, who doesn't love a three-day weekend right? Hope you had a lovely V-day wherever you are. It was super cold Saturday night so we opted for some scrumptious Thai take-out and watched Nightcrawler, that's the kind of perfect *night in* …
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Guest Post: Sundance review of Z for Zachariah
Special thanks to Iba from I Luv Cinema for her Sundance review! Boy the things you learn when you decide to just hop in and catch a film. For instance, I did not know that there was a source material to this three-hander, post-apocalyptic drama. Z for Zachariah, directed by Sundance veteran Craig Zobel, is …
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Birthday List Update: Favorite Films from Each Decade I Live Through
Today I'm moving up the age bracket. I'm taking the day off because well, it's my ME DAY and sleeping in is one of life's greatest joys 😉 Well, four years ago I did this list of favorite movies from the past three [full] decades I've lived through, so basically from the 1980s to 2000s. Looking at the list, …
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FlixChatter Review: JUPITER ASCENDING (2015)
This film was supposed to open in the Summer of 2014, but Warner Bros' delayed it to give more time for post-production work. Heh, clearly they're far more concerned with all the CGI extravaganza as what the film needed more is a script rewrite. I already had a bad feeling about this even from the unintentionally …
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Weekend Roundup: Quick thoughts on BAFTA 2015 + review of Predestination
Happy Monday everyone! Well it's quite a busy weekend for me but I got to see two new-to-me movies, yay. I also got two reviews done on Sunday, so expect to see a review of Jupiter Ascending tomorrow. Here are my top five things I'm happy about from 2015 BAFTA Awards: Emmanuel Lubezki winning Best …
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In with the New BLOGATHON: 4 remakes we think are better than the original films
Happy Weekend everyone! Today I'm participating in Wendell's In With the New Blogathon, and here's the gist of it from Dell himself: In movies, we tend to look upon the new version of things with disdain or, at best, cautious optimism. By new version, I am of course talking about remakes and re-imaginings. Let's be …
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