FlixChatter Review: CODA (2021)

I’ve been anticipating CODA since it’s triumphant premiere at Sundance earlier this year. The title refers to Child of Deaf Adults and it centers on a high school teen Ruby (Emilia Jones, phenomenal), the only hearing member of the Rossi family. Ever since she was a kid she’s been serving as the interpreter for the …

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FlixChatter Review – THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021)

Back in 2016, Warner Bros. was trying to catch up to Disney/Marvel’s superhero films by creating the DCEU and Suicide Squad was one of the many films they scheduled to be part of that canon. When the film hit theaters in summer of 2016, it was a financial success, but met with terrible reviews by …

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FlixChatter Review: ANNETTE (2021)

What a roller coaster ride it has been doing an Adam Driver marathon of sort. I had just watched four of his films last month for the Hidden Gems series, which I had decided before I got a press screening for ANNETTE last week. Well in a way, the absolute bizarrity of Terry Gilliam’s The …

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FlixChatter Review: The Green Knight (2021)

The Arthurian legends has existed for thousands of years, yet its timeless tale still inspires contemporary storytellers to this very day. There have been plenty of interpretation/retelling and the most recent one I watched was the Netflix TV series Cursed (sadly the show isn't renewed for another season), which focuses on a teenage sorceress who …

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Music Break – The fabulous songs from The Greatest Showman (2017)

I can't believe I hadn't done a Music Break post on The Greatest Showman since it's been released three years ago. I've been listening to its songs over and over, and it's truly one of my absolute favorite musicals in the past decade. Interesting Trivia - courtesy of Screen Rant and IMDb: The musical grossed …

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Hidden Gems: Adam Driver

This post is a few days late as I had planned on posting this on the last day of July, but oh well, work and life tends to get in the way. This Hidden Gems series was spearheaded by Mettel Ray, and you can read more info about it here. I'm not sure I'll be …

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JULY 2021 Viewing Recap + Movie of the Month

Happy August!! Dayum, Summer is surely fleeting by. It has been sweltering HOT the past two months that even 80 degrees feels 'cool'… We've got the most 90-degree days in 9 years in the Twin Cities… I think we've had like 22 days so far this year, but feels like there have been more than …

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