Sci-fi films involving aliens coming to Earth are a dime a dozen. So it's so refreshing to see a film that treads familiar ground, yet still manages to be original and truly thought-provoking. Based on the short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, the premise of ARRIVAL is deceptively simple. One day, twelve …
NOVEMBER 2016 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) of the Month
Well I guess we better get used to saying 'see ya next year' now that we've only got a month left in 2016! Of course now that award season is officially in full swing, there's a slew of new film screenings coming in December! I sure hope next month isn't going to be too snowy. …
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Five Movies. Five Words – Vol. 5
Well, it's been more than a year since I did the last edition of Five Movies in Five Words. Seems that the only blog series I managed to keep up with is Five for the Fifth 🙂 I really should do this more often, maybe a few times a year, as it's a fun challenge to …
FlixChatter Review: Moonlight (2016)
It's been nearly a month since I saw Moonlight, yet I still constantly think about it. I had heard the buzz coming from Sundance and TIFF prior to its regional premiere at TCFF, and the premise of a coming-of-age story spanning three time periods intrigues me. The film is written and directed by Barry Jenkins, …
Guest Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)
It’s going to be hard for me not to turn this into a fifty-page essay, because I am an enormous Harry Potter fan. I have been since I was ten years old. I’ve re-read all the books more times than I can remember, I wrote so much embarrassingly bad fan-fiction as a preteen, and I’ve …
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A Thanksgiving Post: 24 cinematic things I’m thankful for in 2016
To all my friends celebrating Thanksgiving today… I hope that you’re all enjoying yourselves, whether it's time spent together with family/friends or just chillin' with your loved ones (like my hubby and I). It's nice to be able to sleep in today and going to dinner/movies later today. To those in other parts of the …
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FlixChatter Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
I have to admit I wasn't really anticipating this movie at all. I wasn't familiar with this character at all and honestly, I have grown a bit tired of seeing Benedict Cumberbatch, though I did like him before he was super famous from playing Sherlock. Now it's no fault of his but I tend to …
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