FlixChatter Review: Pixar’s INSIDE OUT 2 (2024) – Vibrant & funny, an outstanding successor to the wildly imaginative original 

It’s been nearly a decade since the first Inside Out movie came out. That movie really stood out with its unique depiction of the emotional landscape of the human mind. It’s extra fun for me to see a character from Minnesota, just like the movie’s co-director, Pete Docter, who’s now Pixar’s chief creative officer. Kelsey …

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FlixChatter Review: MAESTRO (2023) – Cooper really ups his game as a filmmaker, while Mulligan is the film’s acting MVP

With a title like Maestro, one might naturally expect a music biopic of one of the world’s most influential conductors of the 20th century. Given it’s one of my most anticipated films of the year, I knew going in that writer/director Bradley Cooper intended to chronicle the complex relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife, …

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Musings on 8 movies directed by actors that screened at TIFF 2023

It's been nearly 20 years since I visited TIFF in 2005. This was back when I was still obsessed with Gerard Butler, so my primary purpose was to see Beowulf & Grendel and I did get to shake Gerry's hand after the screening which still made me chuckle when I think about it. I was …

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