Hong Kong director John Woo decided to jump into the Hollywood world back in 1993. His first major Hollywood studio film was Hard Target. He realized right away that Hollywood is way different than Hong Kong. First, he didn’t know about the rating system that we have here, and he had to deal with a …
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FlixChatter Review – THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021)
Back in 2016, Warner Bros. was trying to catch up to Disney/Marvel’s superhero films by creating the DCEU and Suicide Squad was one of the many films they scheduled to be part of that canon. When the film hit theaters in summer of 2016, it was a financial success, but met with terrible reviews by …
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TV Chatter – Musings about Netflix’s ALTERED CARBON
Hello everyone! It's been ages since I actually blogged about a TV series, but recently my hubby and I just binged on this Netflix Original Series ALTERED CARBON. As we're waiting for Westworld Season 2 to wrap (as we prefer to binge on a series than following it week by week), we're in the mood …
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FlixChatter Review: Suicide Squad (2016)
Not every year we get not one but two highly-anticipated DC superhero films where the hype is simply overwhelming. I personally have not been anticipating either movies, and I tried with all my might to avoid watching every damn clip/trailer/featurette, etc the studio releases practically every single week. Well, you already know how I feel …
FlixChatter Review: Run All Night (2015)
Liam Neeson has struck gold with TAKEN and he’s been doing the same kind of movie since. It could be that he’s now being typecast or that he prefers the big paychecks; I’m thinking it’s a little bit of both. Whatever the case, he’s great as the action hero who can take down countless baddies …
FlixChatter Review: Robocop (2014)
The original version of RoboCop holds a special place in my heart, not only it's one of the best films of the 80s, it actually converted me to become a hard core shoot'em up action fanatic. Being that I was born in the Far East, I grew up watching martial arts films, lots and lots …
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