I was out and about today when I read the sad news of actor Tom Wilkinson's passing at the age of 75. BBC News reported that the English actor, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, died suddenly at home with his wife and family. He was a brilliant and prolific actor, with over 130 TV and film …
Continue reading RIP Tom Wilkinson (1948 – 2023) – 7 favorite scenes from the fine English thespian
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. I don't know if any of you noticed, but I missed …
As a big fan of period dramas, I've been looking forward to this film since last November when I first heard about it. Well, seven months later I finally got to see it and it's certainly worth the wait. The film opens with a Royal Navy Admiral (Matthew Goode) picking up a young mixed-race girl from …
Happy Friday! What will you be watching today, folks? Are you going to the cinema to see the latest of the Disney animated feature Wreck-It Ralph (check out my pal Terrence's review), the Kung-fu movie The Man with the Iron Fists or Denzel Washington's Flight? Well, if you decide to rent something, here are a …
Continue reading Rental Picks: A Separation and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
It's nice to see a film you've been anticipating actually meets your expectation. I've been waiting to see The Debt for quite a while, and when Miramax studio was shut down by Disney last January 2010, I feared that this movie would've gone straight to DVD. Fortunately that wasn't the case, so as soon as …
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