FlixChatter Review: The Phantom of the Open (2022) – a feel-good underdog story boosted by Mark Rylance’s endearing performance

For in-flight viewing, I tend to catch up on movies I had missed and I always opted for feel-good fares as who wants to be spooked or stressed out while flying? The Phantom Of The Open is definitely a perfect movie to watch for such an occasion!  It’s a biopic of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane …

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FlixChatter Review: OFFICIAL SECRETS (2019)

I’m glad I got to see this film on National Whistleblower Day last July. It was a very early screening to coincide with that day, which I think is appropriate as many whistleblowers are unsung heroes in my opinion, and they risked a lot to do what they do. As did Katharine Gun, a British …

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Rental Pick: PIRATE RADIO (2009)

PIRATE RADIO A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. So I guess not all *pirates* are bad. This Richard Curtis' comedy is [loosely] based on a true story in the 60s era Britain when the then-traditionalist British government deemed it illegal for radio stations to play rock …

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FlixChatter Review: The Amazing Spiderman

Is this film necessary? It's an inescapable question that plagues this reboot from the start, as it's only a decade ago the first Spider-man film came to the big screen. When the reboot was announced a couple of years ago, the last film of the Sam Raimi Spidey trilogy was only three years old! Yet …

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