FlixChatter Guest Review: MOONFALL (2022)

Roland Emmerich should be called Hollywood’s Disaster King. In the 1990s, he gave us Independence Day. In the 2000s, he laid down The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. In the 2010s, he gifted us with Independence Day: Resurgence. Now that it’s a new decade, Emmerich officially stamps the 2020s with his latest disaster epic Moonfall, …

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FlixChatter Review: Drive My Car (2021)

I know I’ve been lamenting about movies with long running time, even though some of my fave classic movies are 3 hours long or longer. Drive My Car has a 2hr 59 min running time  but it’s actually based on a short story collection called Men Without Women. That title is kind of a giveaway …

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FlixChatter Review: Petite Maman (2021)

I first became familiar with Céline Sciamma’s work from GIRLHOOD, which was one of my fave movies of 2015. Petite Maman is quite different in style and tone but it also has a cast of first-time actors. The opening shows an 8-year-old girl Nelly who’s saying good bye to a few elderly residents of what …

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FlixChatter Review – VENOM: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

I’m a big fan of Tom Hardy, but for some reason I just wasn’t interested in seeing Venom back in 2018. Well, Spider-man: No Way Home mid-credit scene featuring Hardy’s character Eddie Brock with his alien parasite in a Mexican bar (where the bartender is Cristo Fernández, aka Ted Lasso's Dani Rojas) got me intrigued. Then …

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Netflix Picks: Atlantics (2019)

Netflix has a ridiculous amount of content but it doesn't mean it's actually easy to find a movie that's truly worth watching. I had heard about Atlantics when it won Cannes' Grand Jury Prize back in 2019, which then got acquired by Netflix. It made news as it marked as the first movie directed by …

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FlixChatter Review: tick, tick…BOOM! (2021)

Though I saw RENT on stage years ago (can’t remember when or where exactly), I have zero knowledge about its creator Jonathan Larson. I thought the film’s title is so unique and brilliant, which apparently is based on Larson’s one-night-only monologue performance. I only just realized that fact as I got to the end of …

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Netflix Pick: The Water Man (2020) – directed by + starring David Oyelowo

I had been wanting to watch this film for some time as I’m a big fan of David Oyelowo. This adventure drama marks his feature film debut from a script by Emma Needell. The story centers on Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) an artistic boy with a keen imagination who’s working on a graphic novel, Detective Knox. …

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