There have been some memorable parent-child films I’ve seen of late: Nowhere Special, Ezra, and Ghostlight, to name a few. Here we have a single mother named Janet who lives with her 11-year-old daughter Lacy in rural Massachusetts. What really drew me to this film is its connection to the theater world, as it's directed …
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FlixChatter Review: MARMALADE (2024) – a Minnesota-made, romantic heist flick brimming with manic energy
When I first saw the title, I immediately thought of Paddington’s favorite orange jam, but no, this one has nothing to do with the movie about a talking bear. The movie is written and directed by Aussie-American, actor-turned-director Keir O'Donnell (who I remember from The Dry) in his debut feature, and it’s based on his …
FlixChatter Review: THE LESSON (2023) – Daryl McCormack holds his own against veterans Richard E. Grant + Julie Delpy in this slo-burn thriller
‘Good writers borrow, great writers steal’ says the film’s main character J.M. Sinclair, but that line is familiar to us because it was originally coined by one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th Century, T.S. Elliot. The Lesson is Alice Troughton’s feature film debut from a script by Alex MacKeith. It centers …
FlixChatter Review: Vengeance (2022)
At first I almost brushed this off because of that clichéd title, but I was curious when I learned that it's The Office-alum B.J. Novak’s directorial debut. He also wrote the screenplay and plays the lead role, quite the triple threat. Vengeance is part fish-out-of-water dark comedy and part detective story, which in and of …
FlixChatter Guest Review: You Won’t Be Alone (2022)
Like that perfect sunset we may see only a handful of times in a lifetime, just as rare is experiencing a film that humbly stands out among genre-specific exercises. Not to knock those other films so much as to acquiesce to the fact that there are some good movies, some entertaining ones, and some not …
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Netflix Pick: The Water Man (2020) – directed by + starring David Oyelowo
I had been wanting to watch this film for some time as I’m a big fan of David Oyelowo. This adventure drama marks his feature film debut from a script by Emma Needell. The story centers on Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) an artistic boy with a keen imagination who’s working on a graphic novel, Detective Knox. …
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FlixChatter Review: The Conjuring – The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
After watching movies at home for about a year and a half, it was so nice to make my return to the movie theater to see the latest in what is probably my favorite modern horror franchise (with the exception of a couple of the spinoffs). I love The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, and …
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