Music Break: St Patrick’s Day Special – Favorite songs from movies set in Ireland

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY everyone! I'm wearing green today… we're all Irish on March 17th, right?  In my Sing Street review I said I was going to make a Music Break post dedicated to that movie. Well I haven't got a chance to do so but hey, it's perfect for today! Since I haven't done …

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A Thanksgiving Post: 24 cinematic things I’m thankful for in 2016

To all my friends celebrating Thanksgiving today… I hope that you’re all enjoying yourselves, whether it's time spent together with family/friends or just chillin' with your loved ones (like my hubby and I). It's nice to be able to sleep in today and going to dinner/movies later today. To those in other parts of the …

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Top 10 Favorite Movies of the FIRST HALF of 2016

This list is long overdue. I should've posted it sometime in July, but oh well, better late than never. This list only consist of films released between January - June 30, 2016. Some of these might've opened internationally prior to 2016, but I'm using the USA release dates or the fact that they opened at a local …

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FlixChatter Review: Sing Street (2016)

Ahhhh... the 80s. Duran Duran, A-Ha, Spandau Ballet, The Cure, etc. I grew up with the bands featured in this movie, which adds the enjoyable quotient tenfold for me. I discovered John Carney a bit late as I saw Begin Again first a couple of years ago, then rented Once after that. I absolutely loved …

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APRIL Viewing Recap + Movie(s) of the Month

Spring is in the air!! It's still relatively cool this weekend and the sun was being bashful yesterday so we spent some time at Minneapolis Museum of Art on Saturday during its Art in Bloom exhibition. It's so lovely to see cherry blossom tree bloomin' at the park across the street… it was a perfect Spring day! So here …

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Weekend Roundup: Final weekend of MSPIFF 2016 + Review of Indonesian drama ‘A Copy of My Mind’

Time really does fly when you're having fun! The three-week MSPIFF festivities has concluded yesterday. I didn't see any movie on its last day, but I did attend a film panel titled Cinematic Voices with two documentary filmmakers… Nandita Ahmed, Producer A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers Jack Pettibone Riccobono, Director The Seventh Fire …

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12 films debuting at Sundance 2016 I can’t wait to see

I've been dreaming of Sundance all week! I had planned on going initially, I even had the press application ready to go last December but I decided it was cutting it too close to my Christmas trip to the East Coast. But I've been closely following Sundance and reading some of the buzz/reviews. “The Sundance …

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