The Arthurian legends has existed for thousands of years, yet its timeless tale still inspires contemporary storytellers to this very day. There have been plenty of interpretation/retelling and the most recent one I watched was the Netflix TV series Cursed (sadly the show isn't renewed for another season), which focuses on a teenage sorceress who …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Green Knight (2021)
I've been anticipating this movie for over a year now! I first blogged about The Green Knight in February 2020, but of course it's delayed because of Covid. Well now the wait is nearly over! From director David Lowery and starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, and Joel Edgerton, this medieval fantasy opens ONLY in theaters on …
Continue reading A24 presents – Legends Never Die: An Oral History of The Green Knight
It's not every week I do a post about an upcoming movie. But hey, after Oscars wrapped this past weekend, I'm just looking forward what's in store this year. I had never even heard of this movie before, but when I saw this provocative poster came across my Insta, courtesy of A24, I knew I …
Continue reading New Teaser + Poster Spotlight: A24’s The Green Knight
I have to admit I'm a bit of a sucker for romantic dramas. Not rom-coms, but a genuine heart-wrenching love story that'll get me to cry my eyes out. Well, this film certainly fits into that category. Based on an Australian novel of the same name by M. L. Stedman, we're first introduced to Tom Sherbourne, …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
As a fan of the Bourne trilogy, I was dismayed when in 2012, Universal went ahead with the sequel (Bourne Legacy) without Matt Damon. That fact perhaps made me more excited to see Damon teamed up again with director Paul Greengrass for a fifth (well, technically fourth) entry. I guess it's inevitable that a franchise as lucrative …
Ahhh the morning after… So did you see the telecast last night? I went downstairs to my entertainment room at 6:30 and was hoping the whole thing would just start at 7pm, but heh of course we had to get through all the red carpet stuff first. Someone tweeted that the Oscars is really just …
Continue reading My 2016 Oscar recap… in tweets, gifs and clips
Well it's been less than 48 hours since the SAG and Golden Globes nominations were announced so hopefully we can still chat about them, right? We've got about a month until the Oscars is announced on January 14th, so the awards season has officially commenced! Golden Globes Awards I grabbed these list of noms from IMDb. They have …
Continue reading Awards Season Chat – Musings on 2016 Golden Globes & SAG nominations
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