Season’s Greetings from Jacksonville, Florida! I’m spending a week in North Florida to spend some family time this Christmas season. I hadn't planned on posting during my vacation, but I learned something new that I just had to share here on FlixChatter. Photo taken by Ruth Maramis My hubby and I went to Cummer Museum …
Category: Traveling Through Cinema
Movies set in beautiful cities… allowing viewers to live vicariously through the characters
FlixChatter’s Croatia holiday – visiting Dubrovnik, the filming location of Game of Thrones
Hello everyone!! I'm back from my Croatian trip so I'm still feeling a bit jetlagged but grateful to be back home safely. Croatia has been on my bucket list for some time and let's just say it lives up to the hype!! My hubby and I went to Dubrovnik and Split, with a brief 3-hour …
Revisiting Nora Ephron’s Sleepless In Seattle (1993) – visiting a few of the movie locations
My hubby and I visited Seattle over the long Presidents' Day weekend, my third visit to the seaport city. Despite its constantly cloudy and rainy weather, Seattle is a wonderful place to visit and I always have a great time there. There have been quite a few movies set in Seattle, 10 Things I Hate …
Traveling Through Cinema – Antarctica: A Year On Ice documentary
I was supposed to see this film a couple of years ago during the Twin Cities Film Festival, but for some reason I couldn't make it to the screening. The film won Best Documentary from TCFF and rightly so. Well, after finally witnessing this spectacular documentary this weekend, I'm even more gutted I missed it on the big …
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On location in Bodega Bay – Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)
Inspired by the Hitchcock Blogathon hosted by Rob and Zoe, I asked my friend Vince who has contributed several classic posts in the past, including Laura, Vertigo, The Red Shoes, The Omen, etc. to do a write up about his trip to Bodega Bay last year to commemorate Hitchcock's birthday on August 13. In the …
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Traveling Through Cinema: London
It should not be a surprise that I'm an Anglophile, seeing how many British-related stuff I put on this blog 😀 Well, since my good friend Becky (aka Prairegirl) is visiting London in a few weeks, I thought I'd feature one of my all time favorite cities for my Traveling Through Cinema series. Yes, I …
Introducing… Traveling Through Cinema: In Bruges
Hello everybody! I've been thinking about doing this for a while so today I'm starting a new feature on FlixChatter! Not sure how often I'll have this, probably once a month or a couple times a month, we'll see 🙂 Well, since I love both movies and travel, why not combine those two passions? Inspired …
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