What I Watched in JULY 2023 + Mini Reviews + My Pick of Movie Of the Month

Happy AUGUST!! Wow, we're practically a month away from Fall, where has Summer gone?? It was definitely a good month for the movie theater industry as the entire world was gripped by Barbenheimer fever! Glad I got to see both on the big screen, but I probably won't rewatch them again until both hit streaming. …

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FlixChatter Review: TALK TO ME (2023) – A24’s Australian horror movie delivers white-knuckle chills

Directed by: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou Written by: Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman, Daley Pearson Of all the horror movies I've covered for FlixChatter over the past seven years, few have truly scared me. Very few have made me white-knuckle clench my steering wheel on the long, dark drive home from the cities and watch funny …

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FlixChatter Review: Haunted Mansion (2023) – There is a Dickensian feel to this Disney movie, but its execution leaves much to be desired

Directed by Justin Simien Starring: LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase Dillon, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto Disclaimer: I have not seen the 2003 film starring Eddie Murphy and Terence Stamp of which this is a reboot. As history states, Guillermo del Toro was slated to helm …

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FlixChatter Review: The Miracle Club (2023) – Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates & Laura Linney hope for a miracle in a pilgrimage to Lourdes

Lourdes, France is an essential Catholic pilgrimage site and I actually visited the Massabielle Grotto cave with my late mother when I was 13. Many believe that in 1858, a young girl named Bernadette saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary where the chapel now stands. Ever since then, the grotto became famous for visitors …

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FlixChatter Review: BARBIE (2023) – Robbie perfectly embodies Barbie, but Gosling steals the spotlight with his hilarious Kenergy

Few movies are as hugely-hyped as Barbie it practically colors the world pink with anticipation. I’m tickled pink by the Barbie craze despite not having grown up with Barbie dolls at all. I was more into stuffed animals than human-shaped dolls. Yet with such a marketing juggernaut as this one where, one can’t help but get …

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FlixChatter Review: OPPENHEIMER (2023) – a majestic, haunting, thought-provoking piece of cinema that further cements Nolan’s auteur status

Christopher Nolan is back with his sixth feature, 25 years after his feature debut Following. He’s reached a point where his films are regarded as motion picture events, as is the case with this one. Nolan has been rather obsessed with this subject matter for a long time, even his previous film Tenet deals with …

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FlixChatter Review – Netflix’s EXTRACTION 2 (2023)

The John Wick film series has changed the action genre. Gone are the awful shaky cam, up close shots, and fast editing style of action scenes. Most action films these days tend to copy their style, heck many studios have tried to find their John Wick franchise. When Netflix released Extraction during the early days of …

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