FlixChatter Review: The Fall Guy (2024) – a fun albeit predictable ode to the unsung heroes of action cinema

Ryan Gosling is still riding high from the Barbie movie zeitgeist and his Oscar-nominated performance as Ken. Not to mention the Beavis and Butt-Head SNL sketch that’s becoming another cultural phenomenon. He’s bringing his Ken-ergy to his role as Colt Seavers, a down-and-out stuntman who suffers a career-ending injury we see early in the movie. …

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FlixChatter Review: Bullet Train (2022)

Bullet Train is billed as an action comedy where a down-on-his-luck hitman boards a train filled with fellow assassins whose missions are somehow interconnected. It looks like something out of a violent graphic novel, but it’s actually based on Kotoro Isaka’s Japanese best-selling novel with Japanese characters. When Hollywood bought the rights, of course the …

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Musings on Christopher Nolan’s TENET (2020)

If you've been reading my blog long enough, you know that Christopher Nolan is one of those filmmakers whose films I always anticipate. Even if I don't end up loving the film (*cough* Interstellar *cough*), I still consider his film release as an 'event' and this one is no different. The repeated delays–it was supposed …

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Musings on Robert Pattinson casting + Matt Reeves’ noir vision for The Batman

It seems it hasn't been that long ago that I was blogging about casting for a Batman movie when Ben Affleck was cast. If some of you read it, I was actually lamenting about Affleck's casting then, but later on I came around and actually enjoyed his performance. Now, Christian Bale remains my favorite Batman …

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Guest Review: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)

Written/Directed By: Tom Ford Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson Runtime: 1 hr 56 minutes It is hard to adequately describe the opening scenes of the psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016) but you will not forget them quickly. Picture, if you will, images of completely naked and generously sized women writhing rhythmically to a heavy beat …

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FlixChatter Double Reviews – Avengers: Age of Ultron

Ted's Review I have a confession to make, I’m not a big fan of the first Avengers film, I enjoyed it for the most part but when I watched it again on Bluray, I found it kind of dragging. So going into this gigantic sequel, I had no high expectations for it. Well color surprise …

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Special Collaborative Post: Recasting Jane Austen’s Screen Adaptation of Sense & Sensibility

Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope you've had a lovely weekend. Today I bring you another collaborative post with a fellow blogger, and fellow British actor aficionado, Anna from Defiant Success blog. This will be a mini blog series of RECASTING Jane Austen screen adaptations. Anna wanted to do this in order of the book's release, the first …

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