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 …

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[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 …

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Upcoming Flix Spotlight: The Coen Brothers’ Gambit remake

I haven't visited impawards site in a while but I'm glad I did so today. How have I not heard of this film before?? I mean, hello Col. Brandon and Mr. Darcy... I mean, these are two of my all time favorite period drama heroes!! 😉 The gist: So what's Gambit about? Now, you comic-book …

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FlixChatter Review: The Hunger Games

It's quite rare that I watch a movie adaptation within a year of finishing the book, but that's exactly what happened with Hunger Games. I've told you in this post on Friday that I found the Suzanne Collins' book to be quite a page turner, but fortunately, this is the one occasion where the film does the …

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Flix Character Spotlight: Paul Child in “Julie & Julia”

... It doesn't matter what the critics think of the films he's in, or how small the role he has, Stanley Tucci always delivers. Beginning with Big Night, which he also produced, co-wrote and co-directed, he has given great to awesome performances in A Life Less Ordinary, A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Puck!), America's Sweethearts, …

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