Monthly Archives: March 2020

Movie Review: Blood and guts, knives and guns and “Why Don’t You Just Die!”

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Roger Moore

Maybe the world didn’t know it needed a Russian Guy Ritchie film. But here it is. “Why Don’t You Just Die!” is a grimly gruesome and laugh-out-loud tale of lies, double-crosses, brawls, gunplay and torture. And if Madonna’s ex-husband didn’t … Continue reading →

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Go “Shaun of the Dead” with a new “Coronavirus Plan”

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Roger Moore
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Movie preview: Timely “WORKING MAN” goes VOD in May

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Roger Moore

The theatrical release for this festival award winner has been c anceled, so VOD it is.

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Bingeworthy? Reese and Kerry are on the nose, and surprising in “Little Fires Everywhere”

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Roger Moore

You’d be hard pressed to find better examples of “on the nose” casting than having Kerry Washington play a proud, sensual but stand-offish artist and Reese Witherspoon an obnoxiously over-organized control-freak queen of an affluent “planned community.” Add “single mom” … Continue reading →

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Streamable? Mackie, Jackson, Hoult and Long dress up “The Banker”

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Roger Moore

“The Banker” is a sturdy, entertaining period piece about a little known episode in civil rights history, an effort to open the door to “The American Dream” by a couple of real estate tycoons who took over two banks. The … Continue reading →

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Bingeworthy? “The Virtues”

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Roger Moore

“The Virtues” is a stylish, visually-arresting four-part British series about adults haunted by the traumas of their youth. Unblinking in its its detail, compellingly-acted, it immerses you in working-class life in Britain and Northern Ireland, life with a healthy dose of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Coogan and Brydon take “The Trip to Greece,” even if you can’t

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Roger Moore

It’s coming in May. May 20. Rob and Coogan in I guess, a Range Rover that looks like a Kia Soul, covering Greece. And “Grease” in this clip.

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Streamable? In “My Art,” an artist finds inspiration and lots of male attention in the country

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Roger Moore

  The New York “artist type” is so ingrained in the culture that we don’t need more of a prompt than that phrase to get a mental picture. But it’s not all young, ambitious, pretentious strivers — hipsters from hither … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Brittany Snow and Sam Richardson might be “Hooking Up”

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Roger Moore

Brittany Snow plays a sex addict/sex columnist who drags a guy she just met on a cross-country “revisit every place I’ve had sex” romp in “Hooking Up.” Which is as crude as it sounds, and a description that works for … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Actresses do the ugly math for “success” in “Tape”

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Roger Moore

In a semi-seedy New York apartment, an actress  mutters her lines, referring back to the text as she does. “Receive the blood: and when that they are dead, Let me go grind their bones to powder small…” She’s prepping a … Continue reading →

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