Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
Happy June, everyone! May has been a bit of an odd duck weather-wise. An MPR host said the other day that if you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes, ha! Sure enough, it's been alternating between windy, sunny, and rainy in just a matter of minutes in a single day! 😆 Well, …
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Western isn’t my go-to genre, though there are some terrific Westerns that I’ve come to love: Big Country, 3:10 To Yuma (2007 version), Hell or High Water, True Grit, and The Rider, to name a few. This one intrigued me right away because it’s written and directed by the multi-talented Viggo Mortensen who also stars in …
Happy Memorial Day! 🇺🇸 Just in time for Memorial Weekend, The Blue Angels documentary dropped on Prime Video. My hubby and I had hoped to see this on IMAX, alas it wasn’t playing on any IMAX or Dolby theater near us, so we decided to stream it instead. Interestingly, one of the film’s producers is …
Hollywood loves origin stories but not every character deserves to have their backstories told as a standalone feature. Furiosa however, is one character that not only deserves but demands to have her story told. I’m a huge fan of Mad Max: Fury Road, I was transfixed by Charlize Theron’s performance who brought her badass character …
I missed seeing The Last Daughter at MSPIFF even though it’s one of the 15 documentaries I featured in this post. But thanks to a chance meeting with the co-director of the film, Nathaniel Schmidt during the festival, I was able to watch the documentary via an online screener. This is quite a unique film in …
May 20th is World Bee Day so I thought I'd post a review of a movie called The Beekeeper 🐝 This was one of the movies I watched on a recent long flight to Croatia. I wasn’t initially enthused about this, as Jason Statham’s last two movies I saw (Wrath of Man and MEG 2) …
As Hollywood and international film luminaries descend on Promenade de la Croisette, it makes me dream of being at Cannes. The last time I blogged about the Cannes Film Festival was back in 2021, but reading a few articles from Variety, Deadline, etc. makes me anticipate some of the movies screening there that I can't …
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