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 …
Musings on Golden Globes 2024 FILM Nominations – 5 Great Surprises + 5 Glaring Snubs + that puzzling new ‘Box Office Achievement’ category
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 …
FlixChatter Review: MAESTRO (2023) – Cooper really ups his game as a filmmaker, while Mulligan is the film’s acting MVP
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, …
A pair of musicals to look forward to this December 2023: The Color Purple + Wonka
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 …
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Streaming Pick: JULES (2023) – funny, quirky and delightfully out of this world
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 …
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Happy December! What I Watched in November 2023 + My Pick of Movie Of the Month
Happy December! Wow, we're already in the last month of the year, can you believe it? Thanks to El Niño, it's been a pretty mild Winter with not much snow so far, not that I'm complaining. I know folks who are into Winter sports might not enjoy this, but I'm glad temps will still be …
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FlixChatter Review: SALTBURN (2023) – A promising young man’s tale of obsession and covetous ambition is not for the squeamish
Fresh out of her Best Screenplay Oscar win in 2021 for Promising Young Woman, no doubt Emerald Fennell could get pretty much any project green-lit. Just two years later, her sophomore feature, Saltburn, is one the most buzzed-about films of the last half of this year. Her debut feature was described as bold and provocative, …
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