The Beaver A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.I've been curious about this one mostly to see Mel Gibson's performance and because the script apparently topped 2008's The Black List (as in list of Best Un-produced Screenplays). I also wanted to see it because Anton Yelchin, whom …
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FlixChatter Review: Dear Frankie
Firstly, a confession: I never would've known about this movie had it not been for Gerry Butler's involvement. Right after I fell for him in Phantom of the Opera, I knew I had to watch everything else he's in. Boy, am I glad I did as I LOVE this movie and it holds up really …
FlixChatter Review: Machine Gun Preacher
The story of Sam Childers reads like a work of fiction, even Gerard Butler who played him in the film thought so when he first read the concept of the film. But no, it only sounds too good to be true. Childers was a former gang biker who led a reckless and dangerous life full …
Guest Review: Lantana (2001)
Lantana begins with ambient music and a tracking shot of vegetation which eventually come to rest on a woman's corpse, face down so that we can't tell who she was. Then we meet the characters whose lives are entangled like the branches of a lantana shrub, a perennial flowering plant that has a tendency to …
FlixChatter Review: The Debt
It's nice to see a film you've been anticipating actually meets your expectation. I've been waiting to see The Debt for quite a while, and when Miramax studio was shut down by Disney last January 2010, I feared that this movie would've gone straight to DVD. Fortunately that wasn't the case, so as soon as …
Guest Review: The Help is a faithful adaptation
Special thanks to my friend & colleague Susan Martin. While I read Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel, The Help, almost three years ago, seeing the movie adaptation a few weeks ago truly reminded me how much I loved the book. I appreciated the fact that the movie stayed true to the novel in every sense. The …
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Weekend Roundup and The Company Men review
Happy Monday, folks. My friends in the East Coast, I hope y'all stay safe. I was glued to the TV screen Saturday night watching all the coverage and reading people's tweets about Hurricane Irene, wow, I definitely don't take this beautiful weather in Minnesota for granted. We are very blessed indeed. Well, looks like even …
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