Happy um-what-day-is-it? The days have become such a blur lately... and honestly, it's tough to keep motivated during the lockdown, and the not-knowing when this whole thing would actually end is the toughest part. Summer's practically been canceled, which if you've lived in places like Minnesota, that's so devastating given how fleeting Summer is and …
Continue reading Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE – what I’ve learned of the 2020 adaptation so far
The Mission: Impossible film franchise is one of the few that somehow got better and better after its third sequel struggle to make a dent at the box office. Not only did the later sequels were financially successful, they’re also critically darlings. Looking at Rottentomatoes.com, Mission: Impossible 4-6 received mid to high 90% rating. After …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
Review by: Vitali Gueron The upcoming original musical The Greatest Showman is directed by Michael Gracey, and written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon. First time Australian director Gracey made a wonderful decision to turn The Greatest Showman into a modern-musical, opting for modern day pop style songs over 1800s tunes. Convincing 20th Century FOX, …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Greatest Showman (2017)
Directed By: Daniel Espinosa Written By: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Runtime: 1 hr 43 minutes I wish I could at least pretend to be as cool as the other writers who sit around me at these press screenings. I wish I could go to a genuinely scary movie like Life and calmly take notes, looking up at …
When this project was first announced, I was hoping I'd finish the book by the time the film comes out. Well I didn't get to the book, but I was still anticipating this one, largely for the female-driven story. Comparison to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl (which I reviewed almost exactly two years ago) is inevitable, given that both …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Girl on the Train (2016)
I have to admit that I didn't know this film was in the works until I saw it on the press screening list. I had listened to Kenneth Turan's review of the French film Marguerite on NPR, which is also a biopic of a wealthy woman who loves music and the opera but is delusional about …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Hello folks, happy almost Friday! I'm going to see Steven Spielberg's BFG later this evening, though I have to admit I wasn't really all that excited about it. I sure hope it's entertaining and not as melodramatic as War Horse. Today marks an important day for the UK as voting is under way in a historic …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin + Musings on The White Queen’s Richard III
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