Daily Archives: December 15, 2020

Movie Review: Competing for the love of a vampire, “Climate of the Hunter”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Roger Moore

Vampire flick aficionados should definitely drop in on “Climate of the Hunter,” a stylish, chatty and camp blood-sucking homage to “Dark Shadows” and the pretentious British films in the genre from the 1960s. Prolific Oklahoma indie filmmaker Mickey Reece even … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Romeo out of Water comedy — “A California Christmas”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Roger Moore

Netflix’s efforts to steal Hallmark Channel’s “Christmas wish-fulfillment romance” thunder get a boost from “A California Christmas,” a pleasant little nothing that would be right at home among Hallmark’s holiday flirtations-over-fruitcake romances. It’s the seriously good-looking stars of “Roped,” now … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Skylines” goes all “Starship Troopers” in its third outing

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Roger Moore

There are outtakes at the end of “Skylines,” aka “Skylin3s,” cast members crack up at all the silly, pithy, cliche one-liners common to the sci-fi action genre. That’s fitting, because there’s no sterner test than keeping a straight face while … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Holocaust Survivor Asner teaches a punk to find her “Tiger Within”

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Roger Moore

In “Tiger Within” Edward Asner plays a Holocaust survivor who takes an interest in and eventually takes in a runaway, a Midwestern teen punk who drew a swastika on her leather jacket for shock effect. The product of a broken … Continue reading →

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