PLANE (2023) Review: this Gerard Butler actioner swoops in to deliver a surprisingly enjoyable ride

Gerard Butler movies don't usually fly well with critics. Nonetheless, I was curious where this PLANE movie would land with me. I even forgot it happened on the same night as the Golden Globes, but y'know what, it ends up being well worth my time. PLANE is the kind of movie that harkens back to …

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GREENLAND (2021) Review – A surprisingly grounded disaster movie featuring Gerard Butler’s best performance in years

It’s been all over the news this weekend that NASA is launching its DART mission, aka Double Asteroid Redirection Test tonight. Its spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid as part of a planetary defense protection. So it’s really kismet that my hubby and I chose to watch Greenland on Saturday night, before we actually …

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FlixChatter Review: ANGEL HAS FALLEN (2019)

I’m not the biggest fan of the FALLEN franchise. In fact, I hated the first one and I thought the second was tolerable but still not very good. Both weren’t huge box office hits yet somehow Gerard Butler was able to convince a studio to produce another adventure of his mean-spirited hero character Mike Bannon. …

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FlixChatter Review – How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

How To Train Your Dragon has officially become one of my favorite movie trilogies ever… and perhaps even rival Toy Story as my fave animated trilogies. When the first movie first came out, it kind of took me by surprise just how much I adore it. In fact, it’s one of those rare times that …

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Week in Review: Shaun the Sheep Movie & London Has Fallen

Happy Monday folks! Boy, in terms of weather, this is gonna be a darn near perfect week for us here in the Twin Cities! Highs in the 50s and 60s every day and it's only the beginning of March! Well, I ain't complaining, in fact I'm wearing short sleeves already today. Well, usually I do …

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Birthday List Update: Favorite Films from Each Decade I Live Through

Today I'm moving up the age bracket. I'm taking the day off because well, it's my ME DAY and sleeping in is one of life's greatest joys 😉 Well, four years ago I did this list of favorite movies from the past three [full] decades I've lived through, so basically from the 1980s to 2000s. Looking at the list, …

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FlixChatter Review – The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

It seems that a straight love-themed drama is hard to come in Hollywood. Instead we see romance as part of another genre, i.e. romantic comedy, romantic thriller, romantic sci-fi and so on. It’s even more rare to see a love story in a three-film format, not a trilogy mind-you, but the same story told from …

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