Most people know Agatha Christie for her detective novels and there seems to be a resurgence for them in the movies lately with Kenneth Branagh's Poirot movies, Murder On The Orient Express and Death On The Nile. Christie didn't just write novels, she also wrote a murder mystery play The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running live …
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TCFF19 Review: JOJO RABBIT (2019)
JoJo Rabbit is one of those films that I'd call deceptively-flippant. If you've seen at least one trailer or promo clip, you'd automatically assume this would be a bizarre comedy. Well you wouldn't be wrong either, but there is so much more in this than meets the eye. That's the beauty of Taika Waititi's work, …
TCFF 2017 Reviews: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri + Blue Balloons
It's just two days left in TCFF and I'm playing catch-up with posting reviews! You might've noticed I've got to post a couple of things in a day at times… too many films too little time (both to watch and to review!) Well, below are couple of reviews from Day 6 and 7. Three Billboards …
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Five for the Fifth: NOVEMBER 2014 Edition
Welcome to FlixChatter's primary blog series! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. 1. Can't believe this is already the second to last Five for …
MLK Weekend Roundup: a coming-of-age comedy, 1934 classic romance & a 1975 political thriller
Happy Monday all! It's Martin Luther King Jr weekend here in the States and it's a company holiday where I work, yay 😀 Another year and yet another snag in the long-overdue MLK biopic. I made this post last year about the status of the project that Paul Greengrass was once attached to. Well it …
Weekend Viewing Roundup – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)review
Happy Monday all! It's going to be quite a busy week for me with three screenings Tuesday - Thursday, starting with Disconnect tomorrow. I've got my MSPIFF press pass kit yesterday and all the tickets for the films I've mentioned here, well except for Kon-Tiki as it was sold out and the second screening conflicts with …
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TCFF Day 3: Another based-on-a-true-story drama CONVICTION
TCFF scored another feat with this one, screening it two weeks before this is out on limited release. All four studio movies screened at Twin Cities Film Fest are inspired by real-life people, this time it's about Betty Anne Waters, an unemployed single mother who spent nearly two decades putting herself through school to earn …
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