Monthly Archives: August 2019

Peak Goldblum? “The World According to Jeff Goldblum” is coming, and here’s a taste

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Roger Moore

The late wit and novelist Gore Vidal once said “Never pass up an opportunity to have sex, or appear on television.” To that I would add “or spend time, in any way, with Jeff Goldblum.” I have interviewed him several … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Angel Has Fallen” and gotten up…to $20 mill, “Overcomer” bests “Ready or Not”

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Roger Moore

My pre-weekend hunch that Gerard Butler’s “Angel” would far exceed the widely quoted $14-15 million projection for its opening take has proven correct. Box office analysts use tracking data on pre sales of tickets, polling and social media analytics — … Continue reading →

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Preview, Disney’s “live action”…ish “Lady and the Tramp”

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Roger Moore

Streaming later this year. So that’s a plus. It never ends.

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Movie Review: “Rosie” is the apple of Roddy Doyle’s Irish Eye

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

The three saddest words we hear off the screen this year just might be, “Jesus, John Paul.” Sarah Greene speaks them, playing a Dublin mother of four, in “Rosie,” a heartbreaking, underplayed and intensely gripping Roddy Doyle story about modern … Continue reading →

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Preview, “The Great Alaskan Race” remembers the birth of the Iditarod

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

Born out of a diptheria outbreak, inspiration for the animated “Balto,” and now this one. Oct. 25 it hits theaters.

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Movie Review: Liam Hemsworth is a money-launderer with amnesia — “Killerman”

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

An insanely violent C-movie thriller starring a guy in the headlines for divorcing Miley Cyrus? A classic “late August movie,” that’s “Killerman.” It’s about a money launderer (Liam Hemsworth) who rides around New York in a Lincoln Town Car, buying … Continue reading →

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Next screening? Drug deal gone wrong, a lot of cash and amnesia — Miley Cyrus’s ex Liam Hemsworth is “Killerman”

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

Sounds like The American Dream. A lot of ill- gotten cash, and no memory of how you got it. And being divorced from Miley? A price we all have to pay, eventually.

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“Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel” — Disney World let’s you vacay in “a galaxy far far away”

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

Details of the Mouse’s plans to build a “Star Wars” themed hotel have my attention. Characters wandering the corridors. I pop assume vid screen “windows” into space at several points, a PA system of Brit accented villain’s doing announcements. And … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Angel has Fallen” battles “Good Boys” for lead, “Ready Or Not” opens to so-so business, middling word of mouth

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Roger Moore

The third film in Gerard Butler’s Scots Secret Service Agent “Fallen” series, named for radio code speak for the White House under attack (“Olympus has Fallen”) concludes with what should be a weekend at the top of the box office … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: King, “Twilight Zone” and a very unusual little girl inspire “Freaks”

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Roger Moore

Young Lexy Kolker looks so much like young Drew Barrymore that I had to double-check the credits to “Freaks” to make sure Stephen King wasn’t involved, that I wasn’t seeing a “Firestarter” sequel or remake. And as this dark, hallucinatory … Continue reading →

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