Cinema is having a celebratory year in 2022, with three big studio films proclaiming to be a love letter to the movies: The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical story), Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (about Pre-Code Hollywood) and you could even say Downton Abbey: A New Era is a nod to the transition from silent films to talkies. …
Happy Friday Eve! I meant to post the teaser trailer of Empire of Light but got busy during the day and had a screening of George Miller's Three Thousand Years Of Longing (review coming this weekend) in the evening. Well, I'm glad I waited as White Noise's trailer came out this morning so might as …
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As a fan of period dramas, especially those filled with an ensemble of British actors, Mothering Sunday seems to have everything going for it. Based on the novel by Graham Swift and adapted by Alice Birch, the film centers on Jane Fairchild, a maid at the Nivens household. Jane is given a day off by …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Mothering Sunday (2022)
Can't believe we are STILL talking about the Oscars in late March. I hope they're moving the telecast back to late February next year and going forward. Well, I've talked about the Oscar nominees but I saw people were ranking the Best Picture nominees on Twitter, such as below, and I thought I'd do the …
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Kenneth Branagh's first Agatha Christie adaptation, Murder in the Orient Express, was a modest success (worldwide gross total of over $350mil million against a production budget of $55mil), so it's no surprise that the sequel got green-lit soon after. Well, this movie was supposed to come out in 2019, but then filming issues, then Covid …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Death on the Nile (2022)
The Lost Daughter marks another directorial debut from a terrific actress. Earlier this year I saw Passing from Rebecca Hall, and this time it’s Maggie Gyllenhaal behind the camera and also wrote the script based on Elena Ferrante’s novel. Olivia Colman plays Leda, a middle-aged professor of comparative literature vacationing in a Greek island. It’s …
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Benedict Cumberbatch has built his career on quirky roles, and he once again plays an eccentric genius. This time it's an English artist Louis Wain whose surreal cat paintings, um, catapulted his career at the end of the 19th century. Now, I never thought there was a time when cats weren’t household pets, well apparently …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain (2021)
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