After a year-long delay, Bong Joon-ho’s highly anticipated film has finally reached US theaters. Mickey 17 came six years after Bong’s Oscar-winning film Parasite, a shrewd blend of black comedy, social satire, and Hitchcockian thriller, which stands as one of my top 10 favorite films of 2019. Set in the not-too-distant tomorrow of 2054, the …
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FlixChatter Review: FOE – Saoirse Ronan + Paul Mescal’s marriage unravels in this slo-burn dystopian drama
I saw this back in October at Twin Cities Film Fest on the big screen. The main draw for me was Saoirse Ronan who rarely makes a wrong move in her career. The pairing of Ronan with her fellow Irish actor and current Hollywood ‘it boy’ Paul Mescal as a married couple is intriguing. Both of …
FlixChatter Review – ENHANCED (2021)
More than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, most film-loving moviegoers have turned to the multitude of premium video-on-demand (PVOD) offerings of various kinds. Even the large movie studios have turned to using their steaming platform, whether it’s HBO Max, Disney+, or Amazon Video. The others, such as Vertical Entertainment, have continued …
FlixChatter Review – ANNIHILATION (2018)
Directed By: Alex Garland Written By: Alex Garland Runtime: 1h 55min Annihilation, based on the book trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, follows biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) join a group made up of an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a linguist to investigate mysterious environment after her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) returns from an unexplained year-long …
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets review
Luc Besson is not a filmmaker I would consider a favorite of mine. In fact, the last film I saw that he directed was The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc way back in 1999. Sure I’ve seen the films he produced and wrote such as the Transporter and Taken series, while I did …
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Guest Review: LIFE (2017)
Directed By: Daniel Espinosa Written By: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Runtime: 1 hr 43 minutes I wish I could at least pretend to be as cool as the other writers who sit around me at these press screenings. I wish I could go to a genuinely scary movie like Life and calmly take notes, looking up at …
FlixChatter Review: Passengers (2016)
Directed By: Morten Tyldum Written By: Jon Spaihts Runtime: 116 minutes I heard about the premise of this one a few years ago when the project was still stuck in development hell and for some time it was meant to be a vehicle for Keanu Reeves. Well, now we've got two of the biggest young …
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