Written/Directed by: Damien Chazelle Runtime: 128 minutes Rarely did I respond so strongly to a film's tagline. In fact, I mostly barely notice them. Here's to the fools who dream… well, La La Land's tagline speaks to me in a profound way, as essentially, I am one of those fools. Unabashedly. Emma Stone plays Mia, an aspiring actress …
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FlixChatter Review: Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
It's been nearly a month since I saw this film, but I'm still thinking about it. In fact, I was just telling a friend over coffee this weekend how the more I think about this film, the more I like it. The story revolves around Riggan Thomson, played by Michael Keaton in an art-imitating-life sort of …
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FlixChatter Double Reviews: Gangster Squad
Ted and I went to this film screening last Tuesday and once again we pretty much agree on our take on this one. Is it worth a watch? Well, read on. ... Ted's Review Gangster Squad is a film that has big ambitions and it tried hard to be something more than it was. With …
FlixChatter Review: The Amazing Spiderman
Is this film necessary? It's an inescapable question that plagues this reboot from the start, as it's only a decade ago the first Spider-man film came to the big screen. When the reboot was announced a couple of years ago, the last film of the Sam Raimi Spidey trilogy was only three years old! Yet …
Guest Review: The Help is a faithful adaptation
Special thanks to my friend & colleague Susan Martin. While I read Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel, The Help, almost three years ago, seeing the movie adaptation a few weeks ago truly reminded me how much I loved the book. I appreciated the fact that the movie stayed true to the novel in every sense. The …
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Scene Spotlight: Spiderman’s Upside Down Kiss
Many of you on Twitter probably have seen the first official photo of Andrew Garfield as Spiderman. In fact, fanboys/girls everywhere were all bursting with geek-gasm yesterday with the release of two major superheroes in their uniform (the other one was Captain America). At first I wasn't too enthused about the upcoming Spiderman reboot, but since …
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