There have been quite a few feature films based on shorts, Whiplash, Napoleon Dynamite, and District 9, just to name a few. This one is based on a BAFTA-nominated short film, The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, written by its stars Tom Basden and Tim Key, and directed by James Griffiths. Basden …
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FlixChatter Review: MAESTRO (2023) – Cooper really ups his game as a filmmaker, while Mulligan is the film’s acting MVP
With a title like Maestro, one might naturally expect a music biopic of one of the world’s most influential conductors of the 20th century. Given it’s one of my most anticipated films of the year, I knew going in that writer/director Bradley Cooper intended to chronicle the complex relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife, …
FlixChatter Review: SALTBURN (2023) – A promising young man’s tale of obsession and covetous ambition is not for the squeamish
Fresh out of her Best Screenplay Oscar win in 2021 for Promising Young Woman, no doubt Emerald Fennell could get pretty much any project green-lit. Just two years later, her sophomore feature, Saltburn, is one the most buzzed-about films of the last half of this year. Her debut feature was described as bold and provocative, …
The first trailer of Bradley Cooper’s MAESTRO centers on Leonard Bernstein’s decades-spanning love story
I have been highly anticipating this since news circulated that Bradley Cooper was going to direct Leonard Bernstein's biopic AND portray him in the film. Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct with Cooper in the lead, but as Cooper told Stephen Colbert on his show back in January 2022, Spielberg told him to direct …
SHE SAID (2022) Review – a riveting journalism drama that’s handled with care and sensitivity
It’s quite uncanny watching this journalism biopic as the man at the center of the story is still very much in the news – Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial is currently taking place in LA and will go on for weeks. She Said is one of the buzziest and likely the most-attended studio films at Twin …
JANUARY Viewing Recap + Movie of the Month
Hello February! We're already done with the first month of 2021?! Where did the time go? Well, it's my birthday month... but February is always a bittersweet time for me. I actually didn't watch that many movies last month, though somehow I rewatched more old favorites, most notably the Lord of The Rings trilogy. My …
Netflix FIRST LOOK: The Dig + Lupin (French series) – coming in January
We have twenty four days left in December and yet I'm already looking to January. Yes I know we still have a few things to look forward to in December, namely Wonder Woman and The Midnight Sky (directed by & starring George Clooney), but seeing these two trailer this past week got me excited to …
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