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Hitch up the wagons once more as Flickchart heads up to the northern panhandle of Texas for the Flickchart BBQ Road Trip. It’s a decent drive from the western Panhandle as we’re hoping to...
The Great Disney Reel Rumble Retrospective continues through the Disney Renaissance era! Today, we tackle two Disney films widely considered among their very best work. In a battle of titans, who will emerge victorious?...
Steven Soderbergh continues to be one of the most eclectic directors working today, and Black Bag is an exemplar of that. A marital and relationship dramedy disguised as a sleek spy thriller, Black Bag...
It is one of cinemas most recognizable subgenres, yet to our knowledge it does not (yet) have a name. We define the “Mansion Murder Comedy” to be one of the class of films which employs the tropes of the gothic mystery thriller for comedic effect.
Bong Joon-ho is back! After six years without a new film, the Oscar-winning Korean director returns to the big screen with Mickey 17. While his reputation had been slowly growing thanks to his sci-fi...
While the post-It Stephen King adaptation extravaganza has finally slowed down, filmmakers still intermittently seek to bring King’s stories to the big screen. Osgood Perkins has deigned to bring his own vision to one...
For the fourteenth year in a row, Flickcharters have voted for their favorites in a wide variety of categories, from the worst and best of the previous year to the films that interest us...
Heart Eyes is the third film from Josh Ruben, a noted member of the online comedy group CollegeHumor. As one of many filmmakers emerging from the Internet era, Ruben’s work has all been horror-comedies,...
Captain America: Brave New World is a film that is neither brave nor new, though certainly of this world. Taking all the recycled remnants of prior Marvel Cinematic Universe films and shows, Kevin Feige...
The Brutalist has emerged as this year’s historical, self-important, grandiose Oscar nominee, the closest equivalent to 2023’s Oppenheimer. The cinema world hasn’t centered around The Brutalist‘s greatness near as universally as last year’s Best...
For the fourteenth year, members of the Flickcharters Facebook group have voted in several categories to create The Flickcharters’ Choice Awards. Our previous winners have been Drive, Django Unchained, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mad Max: Fury Road, La La Land, Three...
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…
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.