FlixChatter Review: Fountain of Youth (2025) – Guy Ritchie’s globe-trotting treasure hunting movie is devoid of fun, wit and heart

AppleTV heavily promoted this Guy Ritchie movie, and to be honest, I’ve enjoyed seeing John Krasinski and Natalie Portman’s promotional tours on a bunch of talk shows. As it turns out, their interviews are actually more entertaining than the movie! Just from the trailer, you get the vibes of archaeological action adventure classics like Indiana …

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TCFF 2024 Review: CONCLAVE – Ralph Fiennes delivers his finest performance in this engrossing papal mystery thriller 

Twin Cities Film Fest kicked off its 10-day film festivities yesterday with Focus Features’ papal mystery thriller CONCLAVE. It’s one of my most anticipated Fall films thanks to the all-star cast filled with Oscar nominees, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. Directed by Edward Berger, the 2023 Oscar winner for All Quiet on the …

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TV Review: Amazon’s CITADEL (S1) – Chopra + Madden offer eye candy but the spy series is mostly style over substance bogged down by clunky expositions

The spy thriller is one of my favorite genres but there are so many of them these days it's hard to keep up with them all. This one stands out from the pack given Amazon’s huge marketing budget (you can’t escape seeing an ad for it everywhere), plus it's executive produced by the Russo brothers. …

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Trio Female-led Reviews: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody + 80 For Brady + Faraway

The benefit of being in super long flights (I'm talking about 20+ hours of flight time) is to catch up on movies. I watched two out these three movies on the plane, while I saw Faraway on Netflix the weekend I came back from Bali while still recuperating from a massive jet lag. I thought …

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FlixChatter Review: WORTH (2021)

I can't believe that this weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attack. There's no other major disaster that's etched in my memory like 9/11… I still remember exactly what I did when I first heard of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. I was driving to work and while sitting …

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Five for the Fifth: OCTOBER 2016 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. Well, it's October and a lot of bloggers are dedicating their …

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Thursday Movie Picks #29: All in the Family Edition – Married Couple Movies

Happy Thursday everyone! I've been seeing posts on the weekly Thursday Movie Picks that's spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog, but I haven't been able to participate. Well until now that is. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks …

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