Guest post by Dan Stephens of Top 10 Films When it comes to festive favorites, I’m inclined to think of Bill Murray doing his bah humbug routine in Richard Donner’s Scrooged. It was the film playing on TV during Christmas while I was growing up, so there’s definitely nostalgia involved. Perhaps that’s why others that …
Continue reading Guest Post: 10 Holiday Favorites from the last 10 Years
The psychological/end-of-the-world genre never really clicked with audiences even though it's been around for a long time. Hollywood tried to ignite the genre recently. George Clooney made The Midnight Sky a few years ago and again it didn't click with audiences. Earlier this year, M. Night's Knock at the Cabin came and went quickly in …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Netflix’s Leave The World Behind (2023)
Roald Dahl's classics have been popular in Hollywood, and one that’s been adapted several times is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I actually have never seen any of the adaptations, and frankly, I wasn’t even all that interested in seeing this one. Yet I was willing to check it out as it’s written, produced, and …
Happy Tuesday folks!! Well, I didn't even realize Golden Globes nominations were coming out yesterday so I saw it after my press screening of WONKA. So the partnership between the Globes and NBC is no more, per THR, the Golden Globes organization has announced that the 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony will air live on …
With a title like Maestro, one might naturally expect a music biopic of one of the world’s most influential conductors of the 20th century. Given it’s one of my most anticipated films of the year, I knew going in that writer/director Bradley Cooper intended to chronicle the complex relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife, …
Two of the first three Hollywood films my late mom introduced me to when I was a tween were musicals, My Fair Lady (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) so naturally I have a soft spot for musical movies. I do have to admit though that I have not seen the original films of …
Continue reading A pair of musicals to look forward to this December 2023: The Color Purple + Wonka
There is something so modest and unassuming about this story that highlights ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Even more so when the 'extra' involves an extra-terrestrial. Ben Kingsley plays exactly his age as Milton, a 78-year-old mild-mannered widower living alone in a big house in a fictitious small Pennsylvania town called Boonton. The movie …
Continue reading Streaming Pick: JULES (2023) – funny, quirky and delightfully out of this world
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