FlixChatter Review: Project Hail Mary (2026)—Ryan Gosling scores a cinematic touchdown with this heartfelt space buddy comedy

Project Hail Mary is definitely one of the films I'm looking forward to in 2026. I haven't read the book by Andy Weir, but I know it's a favorite of my cousin's. I'm a huge fan of The Martian, which is also based on a book by Weir and features a lone protagonist stuck in …

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Streaming Pick: JULES (2023) – funny, quirky and delightfully out of this world

There is something so modest and unassuming about this story that highlights ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Even more so when the 'extra' involves an extra-terrestrial. Ben Kingsley plays exactly his age as Milton, a 78-year-old mild-mannered widower living alone in a big house in a fictitious small Pennsylvania town called Boonton. The movie …

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Trailer Spotlight: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s BIG BUG (2022)

It's already mid January and I haven't done a trailer spotlight yet. Well, I just saw this on Flipboard this morning and I just had to blog about it. It's from Jean-Pierre Jeunet who made Amélie (2001), and I haven't seen anything he's done since then. I never saw A Very Long Engagement and he's …

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