Monthly Archives: July 2021

Movie Preview: Lin Manuel Miranda’s singing monkey animated musical — “Vivo”

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Roger Moore

Strike while the iron is hot, jefe. Netflix has this project, which looks cute enough.

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Documentary Review: Body Image Battle is joined as “The Body Fights Back”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

“Diets” have been around since the 16th century, but the tie-in to fitness is a more recent phenomenon. In the UK, “fit” became shorthand some years back for someone thin, not heavy, a euphemism for skinny and thus attractive. That … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Bolshevik Batman? “Major Grom: Plague Doctor”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

There are EIGHT credited screenwriters for “Major Grom: Plague Doctor.” You know what they call that in Mother Russia and its satellite state of Kentucky? SOCIALISM. Imagine a “Batman” in which Alfred the Butler is the real caped “crusader,” a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Sarandon and J.K. Simmons make Jake Johnson “Ride The Eagle”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

A bucket list inheritance comedy with a twist? July 30.

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Movie Preview: Ricci looks for love in the “Here After”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

Dolled up and dead? July 23 this one hits theaters etc.

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Movie Preview: “Queenpins” pairs up Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and throws in…Vince Vaughn?

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

A September release about a multi million dollar coupon scam.

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Series Preview: Joseph Gordon Levitt is a teacher trying to cope — “Mr. Corman”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

This hits Apple TV+ in late August. Interesting choice for JGL.

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Movie Review: Hard times make for Hard Crimes “Downeast”

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

“Downeast” is an indie thriller so simple as to be elemental. It’s about a small town under the thumb of a local gangster, a crime long-ago covered-up and heroin headed for Boston’s rough and ever-so-Italian “North End.” The setting, the … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Kilmer wants us to remember “Val,” then and now

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Roger Moore

A24 picked this up, it played at Cannes, and looks wonderful — an expansion of Kilmer’s recent breezy autobiography.

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Netflixable? Will kiddie viewers feast on “Secret Magic Control Agency?”

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Roger Moore

“Secret Magic Control Agency” is an animated comedy that works up its own “wizarding world” for a fanciful spin on alternate lives for fairytale siblings Hansel and Gretel. The animation is polished 3D/CG, with tactile, pliable plastic-looking humans and dogs, … Continue reading →

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