FlixChatter Review: THE CRITIC (2024) – Ian McKellen is always a delight to watch even if the material fails to meet his character’s lofty standards

I love movies set in the world of theater, though the premise of The Critic is intriguing as the center of the story is a theater critic. Directed by Anand Tucker from a script by Patrick Marber, it's an adaptation of Curtain Call, a novel by former film critic Anthony Quinn. I read that Quinn …

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DVD Picks: Easy Virtue and A Good Year

Easy Virtue I've wanted to see this when I saw the trailer early last year, but wasn't fast enough to make it to the theater. Adapted from Noel Coward's 1924 play, it's a comedy that pokes fun at the stifling British upper class. Jessica Biel stars as a feisty American divorcee Larita who re-marries a …

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Upcoming Flix Spotlights: Killing Bono

Seems like there have been quite a lot of music icons biopics in the works lately. There's the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy that premiered at Sundance last January, Joan Jett's The Runaways with Twilight's Kristen Stewart out this month, and just a few weeks ago, I read some news about the Kurt Cobain biopic …

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