Monthly Archives: July 2014

Gilliam strikes again with wild, weird, wondrous-looking “The Zero Theorem”

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Roger Moore

The trailer to Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem” proves he’s still got the vision.

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Movie Review: “A Long Way Down”

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

Oh yes, the song goes, “life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.” That’s the sentiment at the heart of “A Long Way Down,” a suicide dramedy based on that pop music-loving British novelist Nick Hornby’s book.That … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Road to Paloma” looks like no biker picture you’ve ever seen

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

His hair is long and black, his wardrobe has generous helpings of leather — wrist wraps, a vest. He is Native American and rides a motorcycle through the desert Southwest as if he was born to do just that. Who … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Made in America,” Ron Howard’s not-quite-a-concert documentary

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

“Made in America” is a concert film where you never get to hear an entire song by any of the many groups performing. It’s cluttered with backstage interviews with everyone from the artists who appear on stage, to the road … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Linklater makes his big statement on growing up with “Boyhood”

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

Twelve years in the making, filming a few scenes each year to capture kids as they progress through life, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” is an amazing achievement in telling an unremarkably remarkable life story. It’s a film of cultural touchstones and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Nicolas Cage trots out more “Rage”

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

Nicolas Cage as an actor is still a formidable screen presence, capable of an amazing moment, even in a mediocre movie. But Nicolas Cage, as a movie star, just cannot get out of his own way. After a nice little … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Redwood Highway” is a mild-mannered road picture romance

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Roger Moore

Shirley Knight, whose first screen appearance was in 1955’s “Picnic” and who collected her first Oscar nomination for 1961’s “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” gets the spotlight one more time in “Redwood Highway,” playing a woman who … Continue reading →

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To hear the co-stars tell it, the decision to make the indie dramedy “Land Ho!” was all “Location, location location.” “There wasn’t any script,” Earl Lynn Nelson (“Passenger Pigeons”) says. “Martha (co-writer/director Martha Stephens) called me up and said, ‘Would … Continue reading →

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July 4 Movies — “Tammy” and “Evil” take a beating, “Echo” gets a “meh”

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

This July 4 holiday won’t do much — quality-wise — to reverse the 16% drop in the box office, year to year, that June gave us. The critically derided “Transformers 4” will probably win at the box office, unless millions … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Deliver Us From Evil”

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

　 “Deliver Us from Evil” takes a very long time to deliver us from dullness. This demonic possession police procedural only gets good and wound up for its third act exorcism.That’s when Edgar Ramirez, as a chain-smoking, whisky loving Jesuit … Continue reading →

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