Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice is the first live-action movie I remember seeing. My dad showed it to me when I was four or five years old; it gave me recurring nightmares and taught me an especially crass swear word. In Dad's defense, it was only rated PG (the '80s were a lot more generous …
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Thursday Movie Picks: Police Detectives
Happy almost Friday! It's TMP time! The Thursday Movie Picks blogathon was spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one …
FlixChatter Review: DUMBO (2019)
It seems that every year now we'll be treated to a live action of Disney's animated movies. Now, I actually quite like Cinderella, Beauty & The Beast, Jungle Book, and I'm curiously anticipating Aladdin. As for Dumbo, I actually don't remember much of the original. I only watched a scene of Dumbo and his mother …
Trailers Spotlight: Dumbo | Hotel Mumbai | Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Hi everyone! Happy First Day of Spring! Stay tuned for our reviews of Jordan Peele's Us movie and Shazam! coming later this week. For now, I thought I'd post some trailers for a couple of upcoming movies (I'm seeing the press screenings next week) … and one that just dropped today! DUMBO I actually don't …
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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 …
Merry Christmas! Reminiscing on the alternative Christmas classic: Batman Returns
It's December 25 and I thought I'd take the time to wish you all a wonderful Christmas... wherever you are. It's not quite a White Christmas here in Minnesota. The snow that's supposed to hit us today seems to have shift to Friday, which is a bummer as for once I don't mind having a snowy Christmas …
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Guest Reviews from fellow TCFF Bloggers: Frankenweenie and The Master
I was away at an interactive design conference all day today, folks, but I wanted to introduce you to two fellow TCFF bloggers who'll be covering the film fest with me. June actually covered TCFF last year for her Girl Producer blog, but this will be the first time Emery will be covering the film …
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