Daily Archives: June 4, 2018

Preview, Awright awright awright, Matthew McConaughey raises “White Boy Rick” in Detroit at the birth of the crack epidemic

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Roger Moore

Richie Merritt might be the star, but Matthew M. is the patriarch, Bruce Dern and Piper Laurie raised him — not well, apparently — in this tail-end of disco tale of hustling your way to the top of the Drug … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “The Galapagos Affair” digs up an eighty year old Murder Mystery in “Paradise”

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Roger Moore

  The tale reads like some far-fetched concoction of Hollywood’s Golden Age, based on a potboiler by W. Somerset Maugham. A couple of misanthropic Germans abandon their marriages and flee to a desert isle for lives of “quiet contemplation.” But … Continue reading →

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Preview, Tilda and Dakota are at odds as Evil goings-on rend a ballet company in “Suspira”

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Roger Moore

It’s a remake of a little-seen “cult” 1977 horror film by Dario Argento and starring Jessica Harper. Tilda Swinton is the artistic director, Dakota Johnson her star dancer and Chloe Grace Moretz is also in this November Luca Guadagnino film.  The weirdest … Continue reading →

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Preview, A heist goes wrong, and Viola and the “Widows” take over

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Roger Moore

Steve McQueen is years-removed from “Twelve Years A Slave,” and his latest has less of a social justice subtext than a gender parity one. Liam Neeson and Jon Bernthal are among the husbands whose big money heist goes terribly wrong. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A “Limey” learns the rough trade as “The Debt Collector”

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Roger Moore

British martial arts star Scott Adkins ventures into “Get Shorty” territory with “The Debt Collector,” a brute brawler of a B-movie, but a bloody-minded bore. He plays “Frenchy,” owner of a “traditional” martial arts dojo that has him deep in … Continue reading →

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