Daily Archives: August 6, 2021

Movie Review: Recruit gets a dose of the “Dutch Vietnam” in “The East”

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Roger Moore

An American watching the Dutch war parable “The East” can’t help but see it through a Vietnam War lens. This film is about European soldiers fighting a phantom enemy and battling for “hearts and minds” in Indonesia, not Southeast Asia. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What’s scarier than “Coming Home In The Dark”

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Roger Moore

A family vacation goes wrong thanks to two “drifters” in this September thriller.

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Movie Review: Home Invaders sort of show “A Savage Nature”

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Roger Moore

“A Savage Nature” sets some sort of new slow-poke standard for thrillers, a lurching stiff with no pulse to speak of. “Inspired by” a true home invasion a title tells us was in Virginia in August of 2007 (I can’t … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Do NOT miss Lin-Manuel Miranda as “Vivo”

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Roger Moore

Pardon me while I spend a few paragraphs gushing about “Vivo,” which for my money is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s best musical outing of the summer. Miranda, aka “He can do no wrong,” makes the first-ever Sony Animation musical a bubbly, tuneful, … Continue reading →

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