Daily Archives: March 19, 2019

Movie Review: Sick and Lovesick Teens kept forever “Five Feet Apart”

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Roger Moore

Sure, it’s schmaltzy. That’s a given in any doomed teenagers romance. Almost as manipulative as “Everything, Everything,” or “A Walk to Remember,” less wrenching than “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” more medical than “The Fault in Our Stars,” … Continue reading →

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Preview: Natalie Portman is an Astronaut who Experiences the Transcendent in “Lucy in the Sky”

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Roger Moore

“The vast celestial everything” would blow anybody’s mind. TV writer (“Bones,” “Fargo,” “Legion”) Noah Hawley directed this trippy if dated seeming (Space Shuttle?) sci-fi quest into the infinite. Jon Hamm, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, Zazie Beetz and Dan Stevens also … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Junkie Hunters” fight addiction and the Greedy Rehab Industry in “American Relapse”

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Roger Moore

Eye-opening and damning, “American Relapse” is a blunt force look at the “cycle” of opioid addiction and the ways this American epidemic has been monetized by those with an eye towards making a buck out of any bad thing that … Continue reading →

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Preview: “Toy Story 4,” the first full trailer

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Roger Moore

A new nightmare scenario of “lost toy life,” sentimental in the extreme. Traumatic? Nah. Sweet, pull out all the stops, new characters similar story arc. June 21.

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