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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Easter Special Review: The King of Kings (2025) – The story of Jesus is narrated through the lens of Charles Dickens in this star-studded animated feature
The story of Christ has been told cinematically countless times, though in terms of feature animation, this is the first one I’ve seen so far. Created by South Korea’s Mofac Animation and later acquired by Angel Studios for US distribution, what’s unusual about this one is that it’s got Charles Dickens in it. Apparently, the …
‘Extrapolations’ trailer – AppleTV+ climate change anthology with an all-star cast!
Woo wee!! AppleTV is on fire!! Just yesterday we got a teaser for Ted Lasso season 3 which premieres just a month away on March 15, woo hoo!! And now we've got another must-see series that premieres two days later. From writer, director, and executive producer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, An Inconvenient Truth, The Report), …
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Music Break – The fabulous songs from Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Happy mid December, everyone! It's less than two weeks until Christmas so I've been watching more holiday-themed movies than usual… naturally. So this weekend I decided to watch one new Christmas movie and my hubby + I debated whether to watch The Christmas Chronicles or Jingle Jangle on Netflix. We decided on the latter because …
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FlixChatter Review: Black Panther (2018)
I had been looking forward to write a review of this film since I saw it a week ago. By now practically everyone has seen this film, as it broke all kinds of box office records. Normally I don't really care for numbers for a big tentpole films like this one, but I am thrilled …
FlixChatter Review: ARRIVAL (2016)
Sci-fi films involving aliens coming to earth is a dime a dozen. So it's so refreshing to see a film that treads a familiar ground, yet still manages to be original and truly thought-provoking. Based on the short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, the premise of ARRIVAL is deceptively simple. One day, …
FlixChatter Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
What strikes me most when I left this film was how the devastating events portrayed in this film happened not too long ago. As an immigrant living in the US, I may not be as well versed about the history of the Civil Rights movements nor the details of racial segregation that still prevailed just …
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