Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
Nearly two years after its first season premiered, The Wheel of Time season two dropped on Amazon Prime, and I, as your resident nerd, am here to discuss it (the first five episodes, anyway- we still have three more to go). As a reminder, I am only reviewing this as a TV show- not as …
Continue reading FlixChatter TV Review: The Wheel of Time – Season 2 (ep 1-5)
A few days before a screening invitation arrived for this movie, I stumbled upon a news story about José Hernández, the first Mexican-American migrant farm worker to travel to space as a NASA astronaut. I was immediately taken by his warm, humble, and affable nature, so I was thrilled to see his historic journey portrayed …
It seems that a lot of thrillers I’ve seen lately involve protagonists in retirement who somehow get cajoled into action once more due to an unforeseen circumstance. Kenneth Branagh’s third installment of Agatha Christie’s adaptation is set in post-WWII Venice where Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh donning his giant curly mustache once more) spends his …
There are countless documentaries and films that have been made about Queen Elizabeth II. But I was intrigued by Portrait of the Queen as it’s told from the perspective of the Queen’s photographers. Not to be confused with Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts released last year by Roger Michell. It’s exactly a year and a …
Over the Labor Day weekend, The Equalizer 3 arrived and conquered the top box office spot. I’m glad I’ve caught up with the first two movies just in time for the final movie of the franchise. Now, each movie could work as a standalone feature, so I think people would still enjoy it if this …
Happy first full week of September! 🍂 Time for another mini-review of movies I saw on streaming recently. PEACE BY CHOCOLATE (2022) Based on a true story of the Hadhad family who fled war-torn Lebanon after the family's chocolate factory is bombed, the movie opens with a scene of Tareq Hadhad (Ayham Abou Ammar) during …
Continue reading Streaming Picks: Peace By Chocolate (2022) and Otherhood (2019)
I have to preface this post by saying I'm feeling franchise fatigue at this point, that is I can't muster up any excitement for anything by the Mouse House which is basically most things on Disney+. But after two excellent Star Wars-related shows The Mandalorian and Andor, and the good-but-not-great Obi-Wan, I was curious to …
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