Every month there’s a holiday marketers are eager to capitalize on. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and it's no shocker that we're starting to see a bunch of love-themed movies popping up in every genre. My friend Vince just reviewed the slasher horror rom-com Heart Eyes and this time we’ve got a Valentine-themed …
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FlixChatter Review: ARGYLLE (2024) – Matthew Vaughn’s big, dumb, wish-it-were-more-fun spy caper wastes the star-studded cast
When I first saw Argylle’s trailer, it reminded me of Sandra Bullock’s 2022 comedy The Lost City where she too played a reclusive romance author who got swept up in an adventure with her novel’s cover model. Well, the plot of Matthew Vaughn’s latest movie centers on Elly Conway, an introverted female author of a …
FlixChatter Review: WISH (2023) – no amount of fairy dust on the screen could magically turn this mediocre Disney movie into a magnificent one
I grew up watching Disney animated movies so I have a special fondness for them which have mostly been turned into live-action versions with varying degrees of success. My faves are still the classics I saw as a kid, i.e. Bambi, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, etc. Wish is the 62nd Disney animated feature and was created …
Musings on #Oscars2022 – The Good, The Bad + The WTF
Happy #OscarsNight everyone!! Honestly, I wasn't all that enthused about the #Oscars this year, especially after they decided back in February that they won't present 8 categories LIVE but presented during the off-air segment... those categories are documentary short, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, animated short, live-action short and sound. Ugh, …
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Musings on 2022 Oscars Nominations – Snubs + Surprises
Happy #OscarsNominations Day! I didn't watch the live announcement as I was still in bed, LOL... hey, one has to work for a living and I had to be at work by 8:30. I work from home so my office is just a few steps away from my bedroom, but still. In any case, the …
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FlixChatter Review: West Side Story (2021)
Musicals seem to be back in fashion again in Hollywood. Just this year alone we’ve got In The Heights, Annette, Dear Evan Hansen, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie… not to mention the Netflix release of Tick, Tick, Boom recently. I have to admit I wasn’t exactly clamoring to see a remake of West Side Story (I’m …
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