Happy Monday folks! Did you happen to catch the Oscars last night? Since this is the first year I watch the festivities as a movie blogger, I thought it'd be fun to blog the highlights and see how my picks stack up. I'm going to break this into two parts. So here goes part 1: …
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Counting down to Oscar 2010: FlixChatter’s Predictions
Hello folks, just a day away until the biggest movie event of the year! Normally I don't even bother to ponder much about this event until 6pm Sunday night when I actually sit down on my couch and watch the festivities. But as this is the first year I observe award season as a movie …
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Which Oscar’s Best Picture winner(s) are great for repeat viewings?
Three more days until Oscar time! I was going to publish my Oscar chatter post on my winner picks vs. predictions on the major categories, but allow me to digress. I had an email conversation earlier today with a colleague/friend of mine and she confessed how The Hurt Locker is not something she'd enjoy watching …
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Upcoming Flix Spotlights: Killing Bono
Seems like there have been quite a lot of music icons biopics in the works lately. There's the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy that premiered at Sundance last January, Joan Jett's The Runaways with Twilight's Kristen Stewart out this month, and just a few weeks ago, I read some news about the Kurt Cobain biopic …
Upcoming Flix Spotlight: Clash of the Titans Featurette & The Bounty Hunter Set Photos
A couple of updates on two upcoming movies I'll be seeing this Spring. First, we've got the Clash of the Titans' new behind-the-scene featurette. I saw the TV spot during Chuck last night and boy, I'm really psyched to see this! Don't know about you, but every time I see Perseus riding his horse into …
Everyone’s a Critic: Reviews from FlixChatter Readers
Welcome to another edition of Everyone's a Critic series. Today we've got an Oscar nominated flick and two sports movies from a golf and soccer enthusiast. Special thanks to Becky, Scot and Alan for taking the time to contribute to FlixChatter! Crazy Heart (2009) by Becky Kurk My sister from California was visiting a few …
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Weekend Roundup: Amélie & 28 Days Later
Happy Monday, readers, and welcome to March! Hope you had a nice weekend, wherever you are. It was a nice, mellow weekend for me, can't complain really when the sun shone for the entire weekend with temp 'soaring' to the mid 30s (yes, that's a 'warm' front for us Minnesotans after a long, cold Winter!). …