Rose Byrne seems to be on a roll playing overwhelmed or unraveling mothers in recent years. She plays a mother of three navigating a mid-life crisis in AppleTV+ series Platonic, and became a first-time Oscar nominee with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. This time around, she takes on the role of a homeless …
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FlixChatter’s JANUARY 2026 Viewing Recap, Mini Reviews of The Wrecking Crew & Secret Mall Apartment, and Movie(s) of the Month
Welcome to the first Viewing Recap post of 2026! The first month of 2026 has come and gone, though unlike previous months, I feel like January seemed to have passed rather slowly. Unless you've been living under a rock, you've likely heard about what's happening in my home state of Minnesota 😔 Well, I've pretty …
2025 Film-Watching Year in Review (via Letterboxd) + MNFCA Award Winners
Happy first weekend of 2026, everyone!! My hubby and I just kept it mellow as I'm still suffering from my arthritis flare-up in my left hand that makes it a bit difficult to do many activities. We just went to brunch at our favorite pancake place and accompanied hubby shopping for new glasses. I'll start …
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FlixChatter’s NOVEMBER Viewing Recap, Mini Review of LOVE+WAR documentary, and Movie of the Month
Happy December, everyone! We're down to the last month of 2025, can you believe it?? To my American friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice to get four days off, though they went by too fast 😆 We finally got snow ❄️ this past Saturday, enough to be plowable and …
FlixChatter Review: HIT MAN (2024) – A lively crime caper armed with charm and laughs
One of the most buzz-worthy movies out of Venice and TIFF is Hit Man, the latest movie from Richard Linklater starring Glen Powell. Apparently, it's Powell who found the idea for the movie in a 2001 Texas Monthly article about fake assassin Gary Johnson, written by Skip Hollandsworth. He brought it to Linklater, and he ended …
Documentary Series Spotlight: Turner Classic Movies (TCM)’s THE POWER OF FILM
Back in January, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) premiered an all-new original documentary series, The Power of Film, which explores some of the most popular and memorable American films of all time. The six-part series was hosted and curated by renowned UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber. He's the founding chair of UCLA’s Film and Television Producers …
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FlixChatter Review: The Zone of Interest (2023) – Jonathan Glazer crafted a totally visceral experience that’s hard to shake
There are a myriad of films/series about the holocaust that have been made in Hollywood, but nothing quite like The Zone of Interest. For one, filmmaker Jonathan Glazer chose to highlight the perpetrator instead of the victim. Though the story is fictional, loosely based on a novel by Martin Amis, the main character Auschwitz commandant …
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