Minnesota Film Critics Alliance 2024 Awards are here! ‘Oppenheimer’ wins seven MNFCA awards, including Best Picture

Members of the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance have spoken! Every January, ahead of the Academy Awards, MNFCA members get to select nominees for the MNFCA Awards. The historical fiction Oppenheimer by director Christopher Nolan has been nominated in 13 categories, the most by any film in MNFCA history. Also with a strong showing in this …

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FlixChatter Review: OPPENHEIMER (2023) – a majestic, haunting, thought-provoking piece of cinema that further cements Nolan’s auteur status

Christopher Nolan is back with his sixth feature, 25 years after his feature debut Following. He’s reached a point where his films are regarded as motion picture events, as is the case with this one. Nolan has been rather obsessed with this subject matter for a long time, even his previous film Tenet deals with …

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Ranking BATMAN Live Action Movies

Happy The Batman weekend, everyone! Holy ka-chiiing Batman!! If the Bat signal is any indication, perhaps the movie pandemic slump is behind us? Following the strong global box office of Spiderman: No Way Home ($1.8 billion worldwide + counting!), Matt Reeves' The Batman's global take so far stands at over $248 million as it opened …

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Music Break: INCEPTION soundtrack by Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer is one of the most commercially successful composers working today. I've listed some of my favorite scores that he did on this post, though I should update that at some point as that list is over a decade old now. One of those on the list is INCEPTION, which was released exactly 11 …

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Trailers Spotlight: TENET and DOWNHILL

Happy Friday, folks! I was going to post TENET trailer last night when it first arrived, but didn't get a chance to do so. Then his morning, I received a trailer news release of a movie I didn't even know was being made, DOWNHILL. Well, as I always like to mix the tone/genre/style when posting …

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FlixChatter Review: DUNKIRK (2017)

After three super hero and two sci-fi films, Christopher Nolan is ready to tackle a war genre. Of the current well-known directors working in Hollywood today, Nolan might be the most popular among movie fans. He’s able to secure $150mil for his latest picture and he didn’t need to cast any big named stars to …

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Everybody’s Chattin’ + Trailer Spotlight: DUNKIRK (Trailer #1)

Happy Wednesday! It feels like a sluggish past few weeks… especially when I got barely ANY vacation left through the end of the year. My European friends, you guys are lucky you get at least a month worth of vacation, I mean I've worked in the same company for a decade and only got three …

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