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This is the kind of film that is best experienced when you have very little information about the story. So with that in mind, I’ll skim on details about the plot and let you discover them on your own. At the center of the story is a wealthy rancher Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) who lives …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
Happy New Year, everyone!! Well, congrats on surviving 2021... may this new year bring you more peace, joy, love, success and good health!! I honestly think last year felt like a breeze, especially the last half with Thanksgiving and Christmas gone by so quickly that it practically had time to digest it. Though initially …
Continue reading December 2021 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month
Besides Hamlet, I think Macbeth is the most popular Shakespeare adaptations. There have been SO many adapted for the big screen lately that I wasn’t initially interested to see this one. But with Denzel Washington in the title role and Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth, I couldn’t resist. The early screening was packed even though …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The Matrix was first released in Spring 1999, a year where Y2K aka the Millennium Bug, was quite a frenzy with all kinds of doomsday theories. Some thought it was the apocalypse because of a widespread computer flaw wrecking havoc as the year changed from 1999 to 2000. In many ways it was the perfect …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Let me preface this by saying that I wasn't initially super excited for this movie. I felt that it was overhyped and I remember limiting my time on social media due to the fatigue of the relentless promos for this. But days before its release, my hubby and I rewatched the previous movie, Spider-Man: Far …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Illumination Studios is a relatively young company. Its first film Despicable Me in 2010 was a huge hit and made those cute yellow Minions a phenomenon (I even own some of its action figures). In just over a decade, they’ve manage to spun up three original (that is not based on existing IP) franchises… Despicable …
With a name like Nightmare Alley and directed by Guillermo del Toro, those unfamiliar with the source material might assume it's a horror movie. That's what I thought before the trailer rolled around last September, but there is actually no ghost, ghoulish creatures or supernatural elements in this film. That does not mean there is no …
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