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 …
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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FlixChatter Review: The Lost Daughter (2021)
The Lost Daughter marks another directorial debut from a terrific actress. Earlier this year I saw Passing from Rebecca Hall, and this time it’s Maggie Gyllenhaal behind the camera and also wrote the script based on Elena Ferrante’s novel. Olivia Colman plays Leda, a middle-aged professor of comparative literature vacationing in a Greek island. It’s …
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’52 Films By Women Challenge’ 2021 Recap
One of the movie-related challenges I try to complete every year is 52 Films By Women challenge.... that is to watch at least one film directed by women per week. Seems pretty easy right? Especially since there is better female representation behind the camera than ever before, though of course we still have a long …
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