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 …
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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FlixChatter Double Review –Transformers: Age of Extinction
Ted's Review After a three year absent, the Transformers are back on the big screen. They still have to deal with annoying human characters, fight the bad Transformers and destroy every big city as much as they could. The movie picked up about 5 years after the last one, we're introduced to some new human …
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Superlative Casts Wasted In Mediocre Films – In the Valley of Ellah, The Ides of March & Margin Call
Greetings all and sundry! Between bouts of less than strenuous snow shoveling. I've taken refuge within the recent fare of The Sundance and Sony Channels. To acclimate myself with some interesting contemporary offerings. And maintain a sense of loyalty to Julian of Dirty With Class. And his suggestion that I sometime stray from my comfort …
[Arctic] Weekend Roundup & Quick Thoughts on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
It's truly one of the c-cc-coldest weekend ever. It's way too early to have an arctic weather conditions here and it lingers way too long! We're talking about several degrees below zero (Fahrenheit that is, so it's a few dozen degrees below zero in Celcius!), with Wind Chill Advisory issued by National Weather Service when …
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FlixChatter Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
I've actually never seen any Jack and the Beanstalk movie before, but of course I'm familiar with this bedtime story. I was curious enough about this one given that it's directed by Bryan Singer. It starts unpredictably enough, with Jack's father reading him a bedtime story and of course Jack always believed it's not just …