APRIL Viewing & MSPIFF 2024 Recap + Movie Of the Month

Happy last day of April, everyone! It's an exciting day for me as tomorrow I'll be taking a long-awaited trip to Croatia! May is our anniversary month + my hubby and I will be celebrating 21 years of marriage 💕 That means FlixChatter will be on holiday for about a week or so. I definitely …

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MSPIFF 2024 Review: Bonjour Switzerland (Bon Schuur Ticino) – a hilarious political satire that celebrates the country’s linguistic & cultural diversity

What if the famously multilingual Switzerland suddenly shifts to having just one official language? That’s what Zurich-born filmmaker Peter Luisi imagines in this political satire Bonjour Switzerland. Its original title Bon Schuur Ticino makes more sense in the context of the film as most of the action takes place in the Italian region of Ticino. …

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The Beast (La Bête, 2024) review: Léa Seydoux is undeniably magnetic in this disconcerting genre-bending dystopian film

The Beast in the Jungle is Henry James’ novella that has been adapted numerous times. This one marks the sixth cinematic adaptation though it’s very loosely based. In fact, Bertrand Bonello and his co-writers Guillaume Bréaud and Benjamin Charbit take so many creative liberties this one is more ‘inspired by.’ This is my intro to …

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MSPIFF 2024 Review: THELMA – nonagenarian June Squibb is in the driver’s seat in this hilarious action comedy

Who says women over the age of 80 or even 90 are past their prime? Just ask June Squibb who at the age of 94 stars in her first leading role, in an action movie no less. Squibb plays Thelma, a nonagenarian who lives on her own after her husband died. The film’s cute opening …

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MSPIFF 2024 Review: The Movie Teller – the transformative power of film and storytelling set in a volatile Chilean desert

Movies that pay homage to cinema are popular it can practically be a genre all its own, and it’s one I am always drawn to. The Movie Teller encompasses the love of movies and the transformative power of motion pictures and storytelling. Set in the mid-1960s in a mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, we …

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FlixChatter Review: The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) – the cast is having a blast in Guy Ritchie’s suspense-free action comedy

Guy Ritchie loves his blokes. He’s got a show on Netflix called The Gentlemen, which is set in the same world as the 2020 film of the same name, and now, we’ve got gents being um, ungentlemanly in their fight with Nazis. All is fair in love and war, right chaps? The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly …

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MSPIFF 2024 Documentary Reviews: ‘Call Me Dancer’ – about Mumbai dancer Manish Chauhan + ‘Broken Eyes’ – an investigation on the risk of LASIK eye surgery

I love documentaries about artists as it’s always so inspiring and this one is no different. Seeing it in the morning sends a jolt of energy to my entire day, glad I got to see it on the big screen. The film’s main subject Manish Chauhan has a likable, earnest quality about him that you …

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