This weekend started with a somber note with the passing of Dame Maggie Smith last Friday, who died at the age of 89. It's disheartening that I'm doing another tribute post after we lost the great James Earl Jones earlier this month, but I simply had to do a tribute to one of my favorite …
FlixChatter Review: MEGALOPOLIS (2024) – Chaotic, bloated with garish visuals, but there’s no denying Coppola’s grand yet earnest ambition
Much has been made about Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a passion project of the 85-year-old auteur that’s envisioned since the 80s. The IMAX presentation was preceded by a Q&A hosted by the New York Film Festival with Coppola, Robert De Niro, and Spike Lee, and the director touched upon how he was able to finance …
FlixChatter Review: LEE (2024) – Kate Winslet is fierce as the model-turned-wartime photographer Lee Miller
In a sea of biopics, LEE is one I’ve been looking forward to this year. I’m mildly familiar with the subject matter, Lee Miller, an American fashion model turned war photographer whose photos became one of the most significant contributions to WWII archives. Kate Winslet’s passion project, which she co-produced and even partly funded herself, …
FlixChatter Review: A DIFFERENT MAN (2024) – Adam Pearson & Sebastian Stan are tremendous in this surreal + darkly funny genre-bending film
The whole "twin films" phenomenon in Hollywood is happening again right now with The Substance and A Different Man. Released around the same time by different studios, both films share similar stories and themes around identity and the unyielding quest for beauty. I don’t have the stomach for gore, so I asked my friend and …
FlixChatter Review: THE SUBSTANCE (2024) – a stylish and entertaining body horror if you can stomach the gore
Directed by Coralie Fargeat Starring: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid The Substance is a body-horror-psychological thriller and French Director Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore feature film after 2017’s Revenge. It tells of aging celebrity-turned-fitness-host Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) who is fired from her show by a venomous executive (Dennis Quaid) as she is no longer able …
Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) unveils 2024 lineup – featuring Ralph Fiennes’ thriller CONCLAVE as its opening night film
Autumn Equinox is coming this Sunday 🍂 ... and almost on cue, this year's Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) lineup just dropped!! I can't believe it's been 15 years since the first TCFF opened here in the Twin Cities, and every year, it's always an exciting time to see which buzzy films make the lineup! …
FlixChatter Review: THE CRITIC (2024) – Ian McKellen is always a delight to watch even if the material fails to meet his character’s lofty standards
I love movies set in the world of theater, though the premise of The Critic is intriguing as the center of the story is a theater critic. Directed by Anand Tucker from a script by Patrick Marber, it's an adaptation of Curtain Call, a novel by former film critic Anthony Quinn. I read that Quinn …
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