Unfiltered: Best of the Beasts
I watched Spartacus last weekend. All 3 hours and 16 minutes of it. Which is pretty challenging when you’re trying to watch it during the day while also taking care of a baby. I...
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30 Minutes or Less: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
Have you seen a trailer for 30 Minutes or Less? Actually, let me rephrase the question. Have you watched any prime time TV in the past month? If your answer is “Yes.” to the...
The Smurfs: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
When I first heard that The Smurfs was being made, I was amused. When I first learned that it was going to bring them into our world, I was disinterested. When I was offered...
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
The first time I saw Late Night with Conan O’Brien was on a small black and white TV when I was a 7th grader in 1997. It was on a cast off TV my...
Movies for Father’s Day
When I gave suggestions for movies to watch with mothers on Mother’s Day, I was doing it knowing my mother doesn’t watch many movies. Thus my suggestions were based on the fact that my...
Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 9: Contempt
Don’t regret reading about REGRET before subjecting yourself to… CONTEMPT I try to watch the full range of movies, from the most innocuous to the most shocking. When it comes to the latter, finding...
What’s Behind the Curtain?
I hate to be the one to say this, but here it goes. Movies don’t just happen; they’re made. Real people actually write lines of dialog; no matter how natural something might sound to...
Reel Rumbles #36: “The Fighter” vs. “Raging Bull”
When I decided to do a Reel Rumbles about the top 2 sports dramas, I assumed number one would be Rocky. I was wrong, but I was also stunned to see only two sports...
The Guilty Pleasures: Dragon Edition
Dragons. Are there any cooler creatures in all of mythology? Unfortunately, in the world of celluloid, these great creatures of imagination have not really gotten their due. (At least, not in live-action cinema; why...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)