Woo wee!! Can you believe it's been five months since the first official FIRST LOOK photos of DUNE were released?! I remember hyperventilating then just looking at a bunch of photos, well... finally, the trailer is here! Behold... https://youtu.be/n9xhJrPXop4 ... I had been standing in front of my laptop since 10:45 CST... waiting w/ bated …
Continue reading THIS JUST IN! Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE (2020) trailer
I had been wanting to see this since this film came out last Fall in the UK. Its US release was supposed to be in May this year, but of course it was delayed due to Covid-19. Well, it was well worth the wait! Confession: I’m actually not that familiar with this Charles Dickens’ classic (the …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines centigrade as “relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point 10°.” So this definition made sense when …
Happy First Day of September, folks! Well, even though the last day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere isn't until September 22, the 'ber' months have begun, which means Summer days are definitely numbered. It's also the first MN Summer during a pandemic… where we, citizens of the world, had to cope with self-quarantine and …
Continue reading AUGUST 2020 Viewing Recap + Movie of the Month
This weekend we lost a young but powerful figure of cinema… Chadwick Boseman, who died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle of colon cancer. I was in the midst of watching a movie on Friday night, specifically a miniseries, on Amazon Prime that I had been wanting to watch for ages. I …
Continue reading Rest in Power and Love, Chadwick Boseman – a real life superhero
Road rage can be a scary thing. From angry drivers dangerously tailgating or cutting off the targets of their fury to actually pulling weapons on them, you never know when someone is going to snap. That said, I don't think anyone has seen the level of road rage one man brings to this latest thriller. …
The life of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla is certainly makes for an intriguing subject for the screen, both as narrative or documentary films. Even in a supporting role, the character of Tesla is always fascinating to watch. I remember distinctly in The Prestige, played by none other than David Bowie, and recently in The Current …
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