Monthly Archives: July 2014

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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Holiday box office: “Transformers” devours “Tammy,” “Evil” tanks

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Roger Moore

“Transformers: Fourth Time’s No Charm,” didn’t quite make it to $100 million on its opening weekend, earlier projections and Paramount announcements notwithstanding. And its second weekend took a steep dive. But $37 million this holiday — $55 since July 4 … Continue reading →

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Holiday Box Office: “Tammy” opens big, “Echo” OK — “Evil,” not so much

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Roger Moore

The late night Tuesday, all-day Wednesday-Thursday take for Melissa McCarthy’s self-penned star vehicle “Tammy” suggests it’ll have a healthy weekend, but nothing like a blockbuster. Mid-week holiday openings are trickier to gauge, but “Tammy” has already piled up $11 million+. … 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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Movie Review: Dinesh D’Souza tells “America” what’s wrong with it, again

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

It takes 90 minutes for Dinesh D’Souza’s rambling, mistitled “America: Imagine the World Without Her,” to get to its REAL point. There’s D’Souza, arch-conservative Ivy League immigrant, creator of the popular anti-Obama screed “2016: Obama’s America,” in handcuffs. “I made … Continue reading →

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Steve James and Chaz Ebert talk about Roger Ebert and “Life Itself”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Roger Moore

He could be generous and petty, competitive and nurturing, absurdly public and ferociously private.And given access to a soap box, you could be sure Roger Ebert would scramble on top of it. Quite aside from being America’s most famous film … Continue reading →

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