The Mission: Impossible franchise hits a big milestone this year… nearly three decades ago, the first film starring Tom Cruise opened in 1996. The Final Reckoning has a lot on its plate, working hard to say a fitting farewell to Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his beloved franchise. It’s also designed to tie up loose ends …
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FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s DAMSEL – Millie Bobby Brown is a spunky dragon slayer in this revisionist fairy-tale
With the success of the Enola Holmes movies, Millie Bobby Brown inked a deal with Netflix to star in and executive produce the fantasy film. This time she plays Elodie, another Netflix character that starts with an ‘E,’ I wonder if that’s in the contract? Just by the name alone it immediately tells us she’s …
Streaming Picks: Peace By Chocolate (2022) and Otherhood (2019)
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 …
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Musings on the HFPA & 2023 Golden Globes + My Favorite Acceptance Speeches
Confession: I actually forgot the Golden Globes telecast was happening last night, so I went to a press screening of Gerry Butler's PLANE movie instead. I don't have cable anyways but I did catch some of the speeches that were posted on YouTube and honestly, I'd rather just watch the winners' acceptance speeches than sit …
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Good Night Oppy Review – a heartfelt and uplifting doc about a robotic explorer
If Oppy were a human being, one would likely say 'what an overachiever!' So Oppy is an affectionate nickname for Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover built by NASA scientists. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ended up exploring Mars for nearly 15 years. When I first saw the poster, …
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review
I’ve been suffering from superhero fatigue for some time now. MCU Phase 4 has not been consistently satisfying and I still have no desire to see DC's Black Adam (totally fine skipping it altogether). That said, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is immune to that sentiment and I was still anticipating it greatly. Right from its …
A new heroine is revealed in the latest trailer of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Holy goosebumps!! Just a little over a month away until the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Disney just released the second trailer. I was already sold on it even from the first teaser, but there is a lot more footage here that gets me even more pumped for it! https://youtu.be/_Z3QKkl1WyM With the immense success …
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