Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
Passing and The Forty-Year Old Version are two Netflix films I saw recently that share some similarities. Both are feature film debuts of two female filmmakers, Rebecca Hall and Radha Blank, respectively, and both deal with racial inequality, albeit set in two different periods and dealt with in very different ways. PASSING (2021) "Passing" follows …
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When Ruth asked me if I wanted to review Amazon Prime's new series, The Wheel of Time, I had to think about it. Anyone who read my JordanCon post from a few months ago knows I'm a fan of the Robert Jordan's books the show is an adaptation of. I don't want to come across …
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Even if you don’t really follow the world of tennis, you would have to live under a rock if you haven’t heard of Venus and Serena Williams. I have to admit I didn’t know much about their upbringing so when I saw the film was about their father, I was intrigued. Will Smith plays the title …
I wasn't planning on reviewing this, but I felt somewhat compelled to after seeing it. This movie doesn't even fall into the SO BAD IT'S GOOD category, it's the kind that's SO ludicrous you're left just scratching your head why it ever got green-lit. I tweeted this right after I saw it... Watching #RedNotice is …
I am drawn to films that are personal to the filmmaker, and when that said filmmaker is Sir Kenneth Branagh, well it adds another layer of intrigue. As the title says, the film is set in the capital of Northern Ireland. I'm not too familiar with the Troubles, that is the tumultuous period of ethno-nationalist …
For many decades, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and parts of the 90s, the western genre has been stable at the box office. Like what we’re seeing in today’s comic book-based films. The genre hasn’t been as popular within the last 20 years or so, there’s been some decent western that would pop-once in a …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – The Harder They Fall (2021)
Films set in apocalyptic setting is quite popular in Hollywood and in FINCH we've got Tom Hanks in the title role as practically the last man on earth. He seems to be quite chirpy given living in a post-apocalyptic earth that has devastated the world's civilization. He's singing along to his favorite song as he …
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