Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
It's been over a decade that we saw a Jack Ryan film. Chris Pine now fills the shoes that's been vacated by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck in the fifth feature of the long-dormant franchise. The major difference is, this is the first time that the film's plot isn't based on a specific …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Jack Ryan: The Shadow Recruit
This review is courtesy of guest blogger Sarah Johnson who mainly writes reviews for the Twin Cities Film Fest. Well, I’ll say one thing for “August: Osage County” – I wouldn’t wait until August to see it. When the play opened on Broadway in 2007, Charles Isherwood, the New York Times theater critic, called it …
Continue reading ‘August: Osage County’ review from a fan of the award-winning play
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. I saw this film two months ago and it was an early screening at 11 in the morning. I made the mistake of going back to work after this, as I was so shaken …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: 12 Years A Slave (2013)
Once in a while, a film you hadn't heard much about suddenly sneaked in and took your breath away. In 2013, that film for me was HER. In its simplistic terms, Spike Jonze's sci-fi drama is about a guy who falls in love with an Operating System. Yes, that alone is downright bizarre, which at …
Ok, I'm hoping I won't have to talk about Minnesota weather on every Weekend Roundup but this is truly ridiculous! Schools are canceled today nationwide, ordered by the Governor, and every forecast says things like "Limit or even eliminate time spent outside today" and "It's truly dangerous out there." My brother in Jakarta thought business …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup & Review of ‘1976: Hunt vs Lauda’ Documentary
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Part of the appeal of this film for me was Alexander Payne as director. Like his previous film The Descendants, it focuses on the idiosyncrasies of a certain family, but …
This post is part of Cinematic Katzenjammer's NOT-SO-SECRET SANTA REVIEW SWAP blogathon. This is the second installment of the blogathon where you “gift” a movie and then get one in return. I did this back in July with my review of Tremors (1990). I welcome this kind of blogathon as it gives me a chance to …
Continue reading NOT-SO-SECRET SANTA REVIEW SWAP BLOGATHON: Gimme the Loot (2012)
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