Daily Archives: December 2, 2019

Documentary Review: Ambulance Drivers of Mexico City are the “Midnight Family”

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Roger Moore

The sprints, hurtling through the crowded streets of Mexico City, are a matter of life and death. Sirens wailing, lights flashing, a paramedic bellowing over the megaphone, “Taxi, move MOVE” or “You idiot on the bicycle! GET ON THE SIDEWALK!” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Anya” is different, all the way down to the genetic level

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Roger Moore

“Anya” begins with a love story, and we don’t believe it for a second. Its moments of whimsy have a forced, static quality, and never feel anything but scripted, contrived and stiff. But taken as science fiction, which is what … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Let’s head down the rabbit hole of “The Mandela Effect”

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Roger Moore

Imagine a low-budget movie whose characters take “The Matrix” a little too seriously. They think we’re all living in “The Matrix,” a vast computer program that has just enough glitches in it to give us clues about what’s going on. … Continue reading →

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Questlove from The Roots and “The Tonight Show” to direct a documentary — “Black Woodstock”

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Roger Moore

Variety has the news that a 1969 Harlem music festival, contemporaneous to Woodstock, will be the subject of this compilation doc and history lesson. Fresh live footage of Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone? I’m down. https://t.co/XZxuROwRIc https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1201516548692873216?s=20

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