Well, on Tuesday night I saw the press screening of The Jungle Book, which is a remake of the 1967 animated film. It was such a pleasant surprise, a visually-mesmerizing film with a simple-yet-moving story. That film is certainly an eye AND ear candy, with phenomenal voice actors like Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, …
Continue reading Top Ten Favorite Actor Voices… that I can listen to for hours
Welcome, friends, fans and aficionados of film and television. As does happen occasionally. An excavation and exploration of one topic can take a hop and a turn in another completely unexpected layer of depth and direction. As I found myself recently breaking the topsoil and troweling around the body of work accumulated by the long …
Continue reading Filmmaker Spotlight: John Irvin’s Triple Play
It's almost Monday again… my goodness, where has the weekend gone? It's been really quite a whirlwind for me. I had a movie night with my two girlfriends Friday night where we watched Suite Française (well, a rewatch for me), and between Saturday & Sunday I saw three MSPIFF movies. I managed to fit in a 14-minute immigration short …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: MSPIFF Reviews – My Internship In Canada | Dragonfly | Mr. Pig
When I first heard about Dragonfly about a year and a half ago, I was immediately intrigued by the fact that it's a female-led feature and that it's filmed in the Twin Cities. This is a debut feature for both Maribeth Romslo and Cara Green Epstein (who also wrote AND acted in the film). I was thrilled that …
Continue reading Indie film spotlight: DRAGONFLY (2016) & Interview with the creators of the film
Happy Midweek everybody! Well after a balmy March, April has been pretty darn cold, windy and downright blech! I can't believe I had to wear my parka today and still I'm freezing my pants off. Well, I remember a snow storm a couple of years ago made me miss the screening for Mud during MSPIFF, so hopefully …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin + Music Break: Pride + Prejudice + Zombies (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. Ok let's start off with some on-set photos from Doctor Strange …
How's your weekend everyone? It's kind of an uneventful one for me but April is going to be quite busy with the Minneapolis/St Paul Film Fest coming next weekend!! I can always rely on MSPIFF to bring an excellent selection of world and regional cinema and independent films, many of which I never would've been able to …
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