FlixChatter Review: A24’s JANET PLANET (2024) – Annie Baker’s kooky but tender mom-daughter drama starring the criminally underrated Julianne Nicholson

There have been some memorable parent-child films I’ve seen of late: Nowhere Special, Ezra, and Ghostlight, to name a few. Here we have a single mother named Janet who lives with her 11-year-old daughter Lacy in rural Massachusetts. What really drew me to this film is its connection to the theater world, as it's directed …

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FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s HEART OF STONE (2023) – As a franchise starter, this Gal Gadot action vehicle fails to ignite

While Gal Gadot’s lucrative role as Wonder Woman is nothing but certain, there are definitely efforts to build another film franchise around her. From the same studio that released Mission Impossible 7, Skydance has plans that Heart of Stone could be another Netflix action franchise like Extraction.  Right from the start, there are definitely echoes …

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The Wheel of Time – New teaser trailer is here!!

I'm technically still on vacation until Labor Day, but when my friend Laura told me the Wheel of Time trailer has dropped, I just had to post this!! If you're not familiar with this subject matter, the Amazon Prime series is based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series. Laura, who's a massive WOT …

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