Monthly Archives: March 2013

Tonight’s Screening: “Room 237”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

It goes into wide release late this month, this Stanley Kubrick “Shining” deconstruction. It got into a lot of festivals. Not a lot of awards. Film buffs still hold the Inscrutable Stanley the K in reverence, with some justification. I … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

An all-star comedy that leans on its stars to conjure laughs out of thin air, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” is about veteran magicians who find themselves suddenly less relevant when Mr. New and Edgy shows up and upstages them on … Continue reading →

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Disney considers ANOTHER “Beauty and the Beast,” live action?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

Deadline.com is reporting that Disney is talking to Danny Boyle’s “Trance” screenwriter Joe Aherne about yet ANOTHER rendering of the “Beauty and the Beast” myth. It’s been animated, musicalized. It was on TV in the ’80s and brought back to … Continue reading →

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Spielberg promises a picture set on the Indo-Pakistani border

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

For a moment, I thought that Steven Spielberg was leaving his Hollywood comfort zone WAY behind to try something edgy, political, current in the extreme. He’s making a movie that’s set on the volatile border between India and Pakistan, where … Continue reading →

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“Burt Wonderstone,” the movie that drove Jay Mohr into sports talk radio?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

  I think the funniest interview I ever had was the day the producers of “Suicide Kings” paired up Jay Mohr and Christopher Walken, two of the film’s stars, for chats about it. Mohr, a very funny comic and wickedly … Continue reading →

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Tonight’s next screening” The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Roger Moore

The big music first/film promotion second SXSW is underway, but the big films being hyped there are being pitched to critics like myself, seeing them basically at the same time, as they have “talent” traveling to Texas to talk up … Continue reading →

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New York theater owners happy the city’s FAT DRINK ban is rejected

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Roger Moore

A judge has struck down New York’s Nanny State effort to ban supersized sugary soft drinks. And the city’s theater operators are elated. Selling $.25 worth of soda in a $9 cup is a big part of their business model.

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“Trance” — Vincent Cassel makes the best gangsters

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Roger Moore

This generation’s scariest Frenchman has got to be Vincent “Mesrine/Black Swan” Cassel, who gets another workout on the other side of the law in Danny Boyle’s “Trance.” He’s got to be menacing, scary to James McAvoy, the art auction house … Continue reading →

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Critic’s Log — Next Screening, “Starbuck”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Roger Moore

Think of this as a big, fat French Canadian hug of a movie. A perpetual screwup (Patrick Huard) is in debt to loan sharks, tells lies by force of habit, can’t do the simplest job (deliveries) as his family’s butcher … Continue reading →

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Critic’s log — Next screening, Danny Boyle’s “Trance”

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Roger Moore

I just love Danny Boyle, from “Trainspotting” and “Millions,” to even “Sunshine” and of course “Slumdog Millionaire.” And “Trance” has traces of his break-out films, “Shallow Grave” and “Trainspotting” — action, crime, and edge. James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent … Continue reading →

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