Golden Globes 2026 | Best + Worst Moments and the Winner Highlights (Go HAMNET!)

Happy post-Golden Globes Monday, everyone! I'm actually hit with a cold, so I'm keeping this post rather short this year. Btw, I think this year might be the last time I'll be doing extensive award commentaries on this blog and focus more on reviewing films and TV. I might still do Oscars coverage going forward, …

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FlixChatter’s Top 10 Films of 2025 + Honorable Mentions

Happy weekend, everyone! It's that time of year again for FlixChatter's annual best films reveal. For the last ten years, I've been sharing my top 10 list in mid-January. This gives me a chance to catch up on FYC screeners and any films I missed in December. However, for 2025, I've almost finalized my Top …

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FlixChatter Review: HAMNET (2025) – A heart-wrenching, indelible work of art by Chloe Zhao, featuring an Oscar-caliber turn by Jessie Buckley

Hamlet is considered the most famous play in the world due to its enduring influence and the vast number of performances it has inspired. I have seen at least two film adaptations of Hamlet and seen the stage version at the local Guthrie Theatre a few years ago. Therefore, when I discovered a film that …

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TCFF 2025 | Quick Thoughts on Chloe Zhao’s masterful HAMNET + Max Richter’s haunting score

Hello all! The first two days of TCFF have come and gone. It's been a hectic Friday, and I barely had time to blog today. Unlike previous years, I don't have the bandwidth this year to do a daily TCFF post, so my reviews will be timed closer to the film's release date. I do …

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Double Reviews: Wicked Little Letters + The Beautiful Game – a pair of crowd-pleaser movies inspired by real events to add to your watch list

These two movies have plenty in common, not only are they both set in the UK, but both are directed by an English theatre and film director Thea Sharrock. This is my intro to her film work, though some of you might be familiar with her film Me Before You. Wicked Little Letters has been …

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WOMEN TALKING (2022) review – the magnetic power of dialog, delivered with such honesty and emotional convictions

I saw this film and She Said within a day of each other. Both films deal with sexual assault towards women and are based on real events, but while Harvey Weinstein’s scandals are all over the news, few are aware of the story of Mennonite women (not to be confused with the Amish community). Though …

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FlixChatter Review: The Lost Daughter (2021)

The Lost Daughter marks another directorial debut from a terrific actress. Earlier this year I saw Passing from Rebecca Hall, and this time it’s Maggie Gyllenhaal behind the camera and also wrote the script based on Elena Ferrante’s novel. Olivia Colman plays Leda, a middle-aged professor of comparative literature vacationing in a Greek island. It’s …

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