24 May
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THE ENDLESS STREAMING QUEUES Can you run out of TV to watch? What happens if I reach the bottom of my Netflix queue? These are just some of the questions I’ve been hearing lately as people are spending their quarantine time in front of their favorite streaming service. I answer these questions and offer up suggestions on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, CBS All Access and more as we all sit and mindlessly binge during the pandemic. Here’s the videoRead More →

16 April
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TCFF STREAMS Our friends at the Twin Cities Film Fest are bringing their films right to your living room through their new streaming platform. Like many in the film industry and other non-profits, executive director Jatin Setia is finding innovative ways to keep his organization afloat in these times. It’s up in the air right now if they can offer the Twin Cities Film Fest this October given the coronavirus. Per the press release, “TCFF Streams films will be affordably priced at $5.99/play in partnership with our Affordability Sponsor, AARP Minnesota.  All films will be available for viewing, once purchased on the website, for the foreseeableRead More →

30 March
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REAL TALK WITH ROSHINI – MARCH 29, 2020 It is always a joy to be back on “Real Talk with Roshini” on WCCO. Host Roshini Rajkumar and I discuss the obsession over Netflix’s Tiger King, Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, and what’s going on with network TV in the midst of the coronavirus. Here’s the LINK for the segment! I also want to point out I was also featured in the first season of her podcast “Real Leaders with Roshini” Click HERE to here our discussion about my journey with weight loss and overall wellness. Roshini’s podcast is incredible. She interviews a variety of leaders,Read More →

25 March
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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE Creator: Liz TigelaarStarring: Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt Reese Witherspoon’s latest project is the new series, Little Fires Everywhere, which is adapted from the bestselling novel by Celeste Ng. Witherspoon plays Elena Richardson, a wealthy mother of four who lives a pristine life as a journalist and landlord in the city of Shaker Heights. Her newest tenant is Mia Warren, played by Kerry Washington. She’s a single mother of a teenager who seems to have a checkered past. It also stars Joshua Jackson as Witherspoon’s husband and Rosemarie DeWitt as a fellow mom in the town book club group.Read More →

18 November
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THE MORNING SHOW Creators: Jay Carson, Kerry EhrenStarring: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nestor Carbonell Mitch Kessler (Carell) and Alex Levy (Aniston) have been hosting a successful morning news show for fifteen years. Their chemistry is impeccable. That all changes one morning when Mitch is let go from the network due to sexual misconduct allegations. The shocking news rattles coworkers, and Alex is left blindsided. She wants to address the truth to their audience and speak to them as family – to speak on their level. With the shake up leaving Alex alone at the desk, she worriesRead More →

27 August
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MINDHUNTER Season 2 Directors: David Fincher, Andrew Dominik, Carl Franklin Starring: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Stacey Roca, Michael Cerveris, Joe Tuttle, Damion Herriman Mindhunter Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix and takes our trio of FBI agents Holden Ford (Groff), Bill Tench (McCallany), and Wendy Carr (Torv) into deeper, more complicated cases as they as they investigate the Atlanta Child Murders and the unknown BTK Killer. Their work interviewing the likes of David Berkowitz and Charles Manson is groundbreaking and chilling as we see it start to take a toll on their personal lives. Mindhunter is one of the very best NetflixRead More →

14 May
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WINE COUNTRY Director: Amy PoehlerStarring: Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Jason Schwartzman, Cherry Jones Rebecca (Dratch) is turning fifty but doesn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Her friend, Abby (Poehler), convinces her that a girls trip to wine country in the Napa Valley would make for the perfect getaway. They gather four of their other best friends to head out for the weekend. They all met back in the day as waitresses in a pizza joint in Chicago. They’ve since moved on to different states, careers, and lives and rarely get togetherRead More →

14 February
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FYRE Director: Chris SmithStarring: Billy McFarland, Ja Rule, Grant Margolin, Andy King, Brett Kincaid, James Ohliger, Samuel Krost, Mdavid Low The Fyre Festival was marketed to be the next great big music festival for the millennial generation. It was going to be held on an island once owned by Pablo Escobar. His notoriety combined with beautiful people, booze, musicians, yachts, and villas sounds too good to be true but people went for it. The idea sprung from Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur of Fyre and Magnisus who partnered with hip hop artist Ja Rule. Word about the Fyre Festival spread to models, musicians, and social influencersRead More →

17 January
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PODCAST EPISODE 41: AND THE AWARD GOES TO…NETFLIX! I have a brand new episode of my podcast “Paul’s Trip to the Movies” up on PodcastOne and My Talk 1071’s website or wherever you get your podcasts. Netflix has made a name for itself in the world of streaming television, but we’ve seen an increase lately with their original movies like “Roma”, “Bird Box”, and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”, just to name a few. Host Paul McGuire Grimes and guests Niles Schwartz and Eric Henderson break down some of their new releases, their desire for some award consideration, and discuss how streaming platforms are changing the industryRead More →

12 January
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BEAUTIFUL BOY Q&A with Timothée Chalamet and Nic Sheff This was originally posted on November 1, 2018 when “Beautiful Boy” was in theaters. I wanted to re-post my Q&A with Timothée Chalamet and author Nic Sheff now that the film is streaming on Amazon Prime. I also featured my review on My Talk 107.1 and “Twin Cities Live” on 1/11/19 The new movie Beautiful Boy is now in theaters courtesy of Amazon Studies. It’s a true story about a father (Steve Carell) coming to terms with his son’s (Timothée Chalamet) addiction to meth. On Sunday October 28th, I moderated a Q&A with Academy Award nomineeRead More →