Exciting news about 007 dropped yesterday! Just four months after we heard that Amazon MGM Studios took the reins of the James Bond franchise, everyone’s buzzing about who might direct the next Bond film. Funnily enough, this news came as I had just posted a series review starring a former Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan 😀 …
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FlixChatter Review: 28 YEARS LATER (2025) – A wonderful addition to the horror series… beautiful, thoughtful, scary, and well-acted
Directed by Danny Boyle While I obviously love horror, zombie movies have never been my favorite subgenre. There are only a couple I've genuinely loved enough to watch multiple times, and one of those is 2004's 28 Days Later. In addition to having a simple but terrifying design for the zombies, it strikes the …
FlixChatter Review: The New Boy (2025) – a beautifully shot film that offers powerful insights into the enduring sting of Aboriginal assimilation
Produced by and starring Cate Blanchett, The New Boy has had a long journey to the screen. Apparently, writer-director Warwick Thornton began writing the first draft of the film more than two decades ago. It's a story that holds a great deal of personal significance for him, as he was also raised by monks at …
FlixChatter Review: Fountain of Youth (2025) – Guy Ritchie’s globe-trotting treasure hunting movie is devoid of fun, wit and heart
AppleTV heavily promoted this Guy Ritchie movie, and to be honest, I’ve enjoyed seeing John Krasinski and Natalie Portman’s promotional tours on a bunch of talk shows. As it turns out, their interviews are actually more entertaining than the movie! Just from the trailer, you get the vibes of archaeological action adventure classics like Indiana …
FlixChatter Review – Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025) – Tom Cruise cheats death with gusto once more in a finale packed with action & melodrama
The Mission: Impossible franchise hits a big milestone this year… nearly three decades ago, the first film starring Tom Cruise opened in 1996. The Final Reckoning has a lot on its plate, working hard to say a fitting farewell to Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his beloved franchise. It’s also designed to tie up loose ends …
FlixChatter Guest Review – British indie comedy “Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock ’N’ Roll”
Directed by: Mitchell TollidayStarring: Simon Callow, Imogen Wilde, Nicci Linn, Verona Rose, Luke de Belder, Fran Mcateer Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock’N’Roll is an expanded British independent film by upcoming director Mitchell Tolliday, based on his short feature Everything is Going to Be Fine (2020), and also stars Wilde, de Belder, …
Guest Review – Netflix’s HAVOC (2025) – Tom Hardy is the only saving grace in this badly shot crime thriller with terrible CGI
Writer and director Gareth Evans made a name for himself by making two highly regarded martial arts films, The Raid 1 and 2, in the Far East. His first major movie in the West was the underrated Apostle for Netflix. For his next feature, Havoc, he tackled the gritty action thriller genre with Tom Hardy …
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