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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8

January 25, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…

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Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

July 25, 2019 1 Comments

I wish I could say I was a ‘Tarantino fan’. But sadly, I am not. Mostly because I’m generally squeamish when it comes to violence, and decidedly traditional when it…

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Allied

November 22, 2016 0 Comments

Allied is a good ol’ fashioned romantic thriller starring Brad Pitt and Academy-Award winning actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose) as Max and Marianne, a Canadian intelligence officer and…

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The Big Short

February 16, 2016 0 Comments

I'm behind on my Oscar nominees viewing, but I finally caught this one. I'd expected it to be more like Margin Call, but thankfully, though its subject matter is kind…

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12 Years a Slave

November 9, 2013 2 Comments

12 Years a Slave is a film based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free middle class black musician who lived in upstate New York in the first half…

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The Counselor

October 31, 2013 2 Comments

I almost didn’t bother writing this up at all. But then I felt an obligation to alert the Chickflix readers… that I really hated it. The fact that it features…

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World War Z

June 20, 2013 0 Comments

I’m no expert on movies featuring the undead. But I seriously doubt that World War Z will rank among the best zombie movies ever - despite a budget exceeding 200…

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Moneyball

September 22, 2011 1 Comments

Moneyball is a slam dunk - oh wait, make that a grand slam – for baseball buffs. For those who don’t particularly care for the business of baseball, the movie…

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The Tree of Life

June 2, 2011 2 Comments

The Tree of Life won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. So it’s gotta be good, right? Well… I didn’t get it. But then again,…

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Megamind

November 7, 2010 1 Comments

Megamind is megafun – for both kids and adults. I took my “seven-year-old excuse to go see animated movies” and both he and I laughed out loud at parts. He…

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2010 Fall Movies

August 15, 2010 1 Comments

We’re moving out of the summer blockbuster kids' movies and into the fall when traditionally a more serious adult roster hits the screens. This year? Well, there are a few…

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Inglourious Basterds

August 28, 2009 0 Comments

Where to start with this one? Quentin Tarantino has basically taken every spaghetti western cliché he can think of mixed it into a Nazi war movie and patched it together…