Question of the Week: What’s your favorite contemporary black & white films?

This week's question is inspired by Sin City: A Dame to Kill For screening Tuesday night. Boy it's been ages, almost a decade to be exact, since the first film was released. To be honest with you, I don't remember much about the story but the visual certainly is striking. The graphic novel came to live …

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Music Break: The Artist’s Waltz for Peppy

Happy Friday everybody. Hope y'all had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday. I listen to Classical MPR radio on my commute to work and yesterday morning there were a lot of Valentine dedications and they're playing some beautiful, sweeping waltzes. One of them is Waltz for Peppy from the gorgeous soundtrack of The Artist. Oh I …

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FlixChatter Review: The Artist

Every once in a while a film comes along that ends up becoming the 'talk of the town' so to speak. This year, that film is this The Artist. I've been waiting to see this since I saw the trailer last May. A silent black and white film in this day and age is obviously …

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Christmas Weekend Viewing Roundup

Hello all, happy Monday! I hope a lot of you get today off as well as Christmas fell on a Sunday. Well, it's been a nice, mellow Christmas weekend for me but boy did we watch quite a lot of movies! The three new movies I saw this past week couldn't be more different from …

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Wishing you all a blessed Christmas!

It's Christmas eve and the sun is shining outside with no hint of the white, fluffy stuff outside. So yeah, this year there's no White Christmas in Minnesota, I'm sure travelers and last-minute shoppers rejoice not having to deal with extra traffic caused by bad weather, but there is something so charming about snow-covered streets …

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