Continuing his obsession with the spaghetti western genre, Quentin Tarantino has made another self-indulgent film that may divide some of his hardcore fan-base. Personally I thought it’s an entertaining picture but not one of QT’s best films. Set in a post-civil war Wyoming winter storm, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) is deserted on the …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)
I've been dreaming of Sundance all week! I had planned on going initially, I even had the press application ready to go last December but I decided it was cutting it too close to my Christmas trip to the East Coast. But I've been closely following Sundance and reading some of the buzz/reviews. “The Sundance …
Continue reading 12 films debuting at Sundance 2016 I can’t wait to see
I have to confess that since I visited Paris a couple of years ago, I've become slightly obsessed with French history. Sofia Coppola's retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen promises a character study of the title role instead of a historical account that led to the fall of Versailles. I have no problem with that, after all I'm not expecting a documentary of …
Continue reading January 2016 BLIND SPOT: Marie Antoinette (2006)
Hello everyone, hope you had a pretty nice and relaxing weekend. Those in the Northeast, hope you're doing ok and not buried under the snowmageddon! It's crazy that we Minnesotans have been enjoying relatively uneventful Winter lately, I mean we got the subzero temps last week but as far as snow, there's really not much …
Continue reading Weekend Viewing Roundup & Updates on my pledge to #52FilmsByWomen
Greetings all and sundry! After a few weeks of laying low and perusing vicariously the wares of various film festivals supplied by our Hostess, Ruth. I decided to embrace a wave of nostalgia. Break open a fresh set of digging clothes. Brain bucket, miner's light, tools. And a few carafes of coffee. To plumb a …
Continue reading Guest Post: Spotlight on Darren McGavin – Master Character Actor!
Happy Tuesday everybody! It's a short week with the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, and thank God we got an extra day off in the coldest weekend of Minnesota Winter. Well I sure hope this is as cold as it gets, with temps reaching double digits BELOW ZERO. We barely made it to zero the past couple …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin, Weekend Roundup + Music Break: The Eagles’ Hotel California
It's with a heavy heart that I write this post… I had planned on highlighting his career on his birthday later next month, as I had written this piece six years ago as a tribute. I have always loved British actors and Alan Rickman is certainly at the top of the list of those iconic …
Continue reading Remembering Alan Rickman – Seven favorite roles of the iconic British thespian
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