Happy Monday all! Well it's a comic-themed weekend for me. Inspired by the Captain America: Civil War screening earlier last week, my hubby and I ended up doing a Captain America marathon with The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier. Yep, still absolutely loved both of them and that makes the Captain America trilogy one …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: Highlights from 2016 Wizard World Minneapolis
The buzz over the latest Marvel blockbuster has been through the roof. It's already made over $200 mil internationally before it even opened here in the US, so no doubt it will wipe out any competition here this weekend. I have to say that despite my increasing superhero fatigue, I was still looking forward to …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Welcome to FlixChatter's primary blog series! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. 1. Happy Cinco de Mayo! Well, per tradition on the Fifth of …
For the last couple of years, Hollywood is giving Kevin Costner another shot at being a box office draw. Unfortunately all the films he starred in as the lead mustered very little box office returns and looks like that trend will continue with his new action thriller. After a botched mission, CIA agent Bill Pope …
Spring is in the air!! It's still relatively cool this weekend and the sun was being bashful yesterday so we spent some time at Minneapolis Museum of Art on Saturday during its Art in Bloom exhibition. It's so lovely to see cherry blossom tree bloomin' at the park across the street… it was a perfect Spring day! So here …
Continue reading APRIL Viewing Recap + Movie(s) of the Month
Happy weekend all! I haven't done this question-of-the-week post in a looong time. Well, my pal Ted sent me an email about this topic and I thought it'd be a good one to pose to all you fine movie lovers out there. I'm hoping this would be an interesting discussion point as we'd all have different …
Continue reading Question of the week – Which movie/tv genre(s) have you decided to stop watching?
It seems tradition that during every film festival in town that I have at least one Juliette Binoche movie on my schedule. Well, she's still the main reason to see this one. The film centers on two women who's somehow thrown together just before Easter, set in a picturesque Sicilian town. The actors speak in both Italian …
Continue reading MSPIFF review: L’Attesa (The Wait) starring Juliette Binoche
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