Another week, another big, expensive but soulless Netflix blockbuster. It’s no wonder they’re losing subscribers by the thousands with this kind of quantity over quality mentality. It doesn’t help that the streaming subscription is getting more and more expensive, it’ll cost us $15.49 per month in August. Undoubtedly Netflix is seeking a lucrative action franchise to …
A movie trailer’s main function is to advertise a future coming attraction. In essence, it is a commercial, announcing to the masses of so and so’s new movie, starring so and so, and so forth. But film trailers can also be an art form. The worst example of this is the annoying trailer for Bullet …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Jordan Peele’s NOPE(2022)
I saw this movie over a year ago at Minneapolis-St Paul Film Festival and finally, it gets a US distribution in July. Ever since I saw Call My Agent! on Netflix a few years ago, I absolutely adore most of the cast, including Laure Calamy who played Noémie. Here she plays Antoinette, a school teacher …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes)
Since this movie is clearly made for Gen Z and the supposedly woke audience, let me just say that most involved in this production did NOT understand the assignment. As I said in my trailer post, I was open-minded about this Netflix adaptation, but within 10 minutes I realize they’ve stripped everything I love about …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s PERSUASION (2022)
What are crawdads you say? Yes, I had to look this up. The only other reference to crawdads in a film that I can remember was in the Coen Brothers’ highly funny Raising Arizona (1987). Turns out they are crayfish – termed ‘crawdads’ in the central and southern regions of the U.S. In this film …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
It’s time to return to Downton in DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA. It's now available to own with bonus content on Digital and you can now have a chance to win the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™ and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Earning an “A” CinemaScore and 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, including a 4-star …
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Happy almost Friday, everyone! Guess what, yours truly was invited as a guest at MPR News with Angela Davis to talk about movies! Two years after this still-not-quite-ending pandemic, we talk about the state of the movie theaters, Hollywood blockbusters, and our favorite movies of the year so far. Thanks to MPR producer–and Cube Critics' …
Continue reading Chatting about Summer Movies w/ Angela Davis on MPR Morning Show
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