Thursday Movie Picks: Police Detectives

Happy almost Friday! It's TMP time! The Thursday Movie Picks blogathon was spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one …

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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 …

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Spotlight on Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – Interview with Kim Barker, whose memoir inspired the film

I first saw the trailer of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot about a month ago which stars Tina Fey as a 40-something female who finds herself in a rut and wants to completely shake up her life, which she does by taking up a journalism assignment in Afghanistan. The film is directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa and …

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Musings on the final Hobbit trilogy: The Battle of the Five Armies

Seems like it was ages ago since I saw the first Hobbit film. But in fact it was exactly two years ago that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released. There were – and still are – quibbles about how a 320-page book warrants a three-film adaptation, and I was actually one of those people who …

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Everybody’s Chattin’ + Question of the Week on Emmys winner wishlist

Happy Midweek everyone! Just two more days until Friday, yay 😉 I'm going to hit two birds with one stone again today in combining two post *series* in one. Ok, so let's start with some of my favorite posts from the past week: The legendary director Steven Spielberg's been is a lot of my fellow …

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Early 2014 TV Season: The Same Thing… Only Different!

Greetings all and sundry! After putting the Holiday and New Year season safely behind. I've taken some time to settle in behind the television to enjoy and occasionally dissect the latest offerings of the major stations. Any decent dissection is the natural offshoot of an in depth comparison and analysis in order to find a …

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10 Favorite Things about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Much has been debated about whether or not it's a good idea that The Hobbit gets the same trilogy treatment as The Lord of the Rings trilogy when there is only one book being adapted. Now, I actually didn't mind it and given how much I adore the Middle Earth universe, I welcome the extended …

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