FlixChatter Review: The Dead Don’t Hurt (2024) – Vicky Krieps is riveting in Viggo Mortensen’s lyrical, slow-burn Western drama

Western isn’t my go-to genre, though there are some terrific Westerns that I’ve come to love: Big Country, 3:10 To Yuma (2007 version), Hell or High Water, True Grit, and The Rider, to name a few. This one intrigued me right away because it’s written and directed by the multi-talented Viggo Mortensen who also stars in …

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FlixChatter Review: A Million Miles Away (2023) – an inspiring biopic of farmworker-turned-NASA-astronaut that goes the distance

A few days before a screening invitation arrived for this movie, I stumbled upon a news story about José Hernández, the first Mexican-American migrant farm worker to travel to space as a NASA astronaut. I was immediately taken by his warm, humble, and affable nature, so I was thrilled to see his historic journey portrayed …

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FlixChatter Guest Review: AMBULANCE (2022)

Hollywood loves remaking films from other countries. In the 2000s and early 2010’s, there were several remakes from the Far East and some of them were very successful. The Ring and The Departed are two great examples of successful remakes. Lately, Hollywood has churned out remakes from Europe and Jake Gyllenhaal has starred in two …

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