Happy first full week of September! 🍂 Time for another mini-review of movies I saw on streaming recently. PEACE BY CHOCOLATE (2022) Based on a true story of the Hadhad family who fled war-torn Lebanon after the family's chocolate factory is bombed, the movie opens with a scene of Tareq Hadhad (Ayham Abou Ammar) during …
Continue reading Streaming Picks: Peace By Chocolate (2022) and Otherhood (2019)
It's the hottest week in Minnesota (the heat index is over 100 which I'm not used to) so I spend time hibernating and catching up on movies I've been wanting to check out for ages. Of course, I prioritize those #directedbywomen for my 52 Films By Women challenge (6 movies so far this month, woot!!). …
Happy International Women's Day everyone! As a female movie fan and film critic, as well as someone who's dabbled in filmmaking, I'd like to take the opportunity to talk about where we are in terms of female representation. I have lamented in my Oscars nomination musings that Hollywood once again ignored female filmmakers with the …
Happy 2023, friends and readers!! Hope you have recovered from the New Year's Eve festivities… I stayed up till 1:30 which wasn't too bad considering I went to my friend's disco-themed party, first NYE party I attended in a while, I barely stayed awake in front of the TV watching the ball drop in the …
Continue reading December Watching Recap + 2022 Update on my ’52 Films By Women’ Pledge
Happy Spring, everyone! May arrives cold and rainy here in MN but hey, there's hope for more sunny and warm days ahead. April was quite an eventful month for me as my hubby and I made a trip to NYC to see The Music Man on Broadway. Yep, the one starring Hugh Jackman in the …
Continue reading April 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie Of The Month
Happy April, everyone!! It's still quite cold here in Minnesota but I'm looking forward to more daylight in the Spring time. Temps are s-l-o-w-l-y warming up to 50s, hopefully even 60s by mid-April! Things have been quite busy for me this month that I haven't had time to watch as many movies as I had …
Continue reading March 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month
Spring is in the air!! As I'm writing this, it's about 40F degrees, which is quite balmy for Minnesota! I know March is supposed to be the snowiest month but I'm looking forward to more warming temps (yes I'll take highs in the 30s, ahah!). Well, like many people in the world this week, I've …
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