It's double-review time! I always try to find common ground in the films I review together. These two are based on memoirs and are directed by women – both currently available on VOD. NYAD There have been quite a few biopics released in the past year, and this one centers on Diane Nyad, a marathon …
Minnesota Film Critics Alliance 2024 Awards are here! ‘Oppenheimer’ wins seven MNFCA awards, including Best Picture
Members of the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance have spoken! Every January, ahead of the Academy Awards, MNFCA members get to select nominees for the MNFCA Awards. The historical fiction Oppenheimer by director Christopher Nolan has been nominated in 13 categories, the most by any film in MNFCA history. Also with a strong showing in this …
FlixChatter Review: ARGYLLE (2024) – Matthew Vaughn’s big, dumb, wish-it-were-more-fun spy caper wastes the star-studded cast
When I first saw Argylle’s trailer, it reminded me of Sandra Bullock’s 2022 comedy The Lost City where she too played a reclusive romance author who got swept up in an adventure with her novel’s cover model. Well, the plot of Matthew Vaughn’s latest movie centers on Elly Conway, an introverted female author of a …
Movies/Series I Watched in JANUARY 2024 + Mini Reviews + My Pick of Movie Of the Month
Happy February! We're technically still in Winter in Minnesota, but you wouldn't know it looking at the weather forecast. We've had a mild December and just a few frigid days in January, but it ended with a record-breaking temp. Per MPR, yesterday was the warmest Jan 31 in 150 years in the Twin Cities as …
Binge-worthy TV Miniseries I’m loving right now: sci-fi crime thriller BODIES (2023) – streaming on Netflix
Winter is always a good time for catching up on TV series I've been wanting to see for some time. I actually much prefer limited series, with a predetermined number of episodes that tell a complete story, to regular series that are designed to go on and on for several seasons. My husband and I …
FlixChatter’s Top 10 Films of 2023 + 20 Honorable Mentions
Happy Monday, everyone! My list of best/favorite movies of 2023 is here! I realize that I'm running a bit behind in posting my top 10 list... per my blog tradition, I usually wait until mid-January, but I waited another week so I could watch a couple of films I meant to see before I posted …
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2021) review – a poignant coming-of-age refugee drama based on the true story of author Judith Kerr
Berlin, 1933. The Kemper family was living a pretty good life, Arthur Kemper (Oliver Masucci) is a journalist, and his wife Dorothea (Carla Jury) is an Opera composer living in a large house with their two children, Max and Anna. But suddenly, they found their lives in danger when the Nazi party, despite failing to …
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