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 …
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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 …
Guest Reviews: Battle L.A. and Cowboys & Aliens
Battle: Los Angeles If there’s ever a competition for most clichés piled up in one movie, Battle Los Angeles is the clear winner. The film is about a group of soldiers battle against the faceless, I mean that literally, alien invaders who are destroying every major city in the world. Marine Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron …
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FlixChatter Review: The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
As I said in my weekend roundup post, this film was such a pleasant surprise as I really wasn't that interested in seeing it. In fact, when the trailer came out a few months ago, I quickly dismissed it, saying that it looked ridiculous and so darn obvious that the apes will go y'know, ape-sh*t …
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FlixChatter Review – Captain America: The First Avenger
This review is courtesy of Ivan Maramis... a.k.a. ze blogger's hubby 😀 When it was first announced that Captain America would be made into the big screen, I thought it was such a preposterous proposition. I know of the comic and am familiar enough to sum it up in a :30 second elevator pitch, but …
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