Happy Oscars Eve! Time for the obligatory predictions, it's currently about 24 hours away until the 96th Oscar winners are announced. Just like last year, I have actually managed to see nine out of the ten nominees. The one I haven't seen is Killers of the Flower Moon (it's nearly 3.5 hours long!) but hey, …
Continue reading 2024 Oscars Predictions – FlixChatter picks on who will win + who should win
I was out and about today when I read the sad news of actor Tom Wilkinson's passing at the age of 75. BBC News reported that the English actor, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, died suddenly at home with his wife and family. He was a brilliant and prolific actor, with over 130 TV and film …
Continue reading RIP Tom Wilkinson (1948 – 2023) – 7 favorite scenes from the fine English thespian
There is something so modest and unassuming about this story that highlights ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Even more so when the 'extra' involves an extra-terrestrial. Ben Kingsley plays exactly his age as Milton, a 78-year-old mild-mannered widower living alone in a big house in a fictitious small Pennsylvania town called Boonton. The movie …
Continue reading Streaming Pick: JULES (2023) – funny, quirky and delightfully out of this world
New year, new blogathon – say hello to ‘Five Films Forever’ blogathon … spearheaded by my friend Claire from Cinematic Delights. The challenge: You wake up to eerie silence. You call out ‘Hello?’ but no-one answers. You’re alone except for a film projector and speakers with infinite battery life and five of your favourite films …
Well, it's been more than a year since I did the last edition of Five Movies in Five Words. Seems that the only blog series I managed to keep up with is Five for the Fifth 🙂 I really should do this more often, maybe a few times a year, as it's a fun challenge to …
TCFF is less than a week away! Those who've been reading my blog for a while knows I've been covering TCFF since its inception seven years ago. It was only a 5-day festival and it was split between two different locations in Minneapolis. Well now TCFF has made its home at Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatres in …
Café Society is director Woody Allen’s latest film about old Hollywood – or sort of. Set during its golden age (30s, 40s), its main protagonist is Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg), a naïve young New Yorker looking to make his way by moving to Hollywood to work under his uncle Phil (Steve Carell in a wooden …
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