Monthly Archives: September 2021

Movie Review: Unbalanced young woman skydives into “Anne at 13,000 ft”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Roger Moore

Spare, intense and deeply unnerving, “Anne at 13,000 ft” an indie drama that manages to keep the viewer on tenterhooks by concentrating on the bare essentials — an unbalanced young woman who is never more than one bad day from … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pencil Factory brings a prodigal business-son back to have a try at “Saving Paradise”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Roger Moore

“Saving Paradise” is another old fashioned, sentimental take on work, workplaces and their value in an America that has ceded control of such things to Wall Street, and watched as Main Street paid the price. Yes, thirty years after “Other … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Swordswoman has to realize she’s a “Yakuza Princess”

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Roger Moore

Sure, you had me at “Yakuza Princess.” But was there ever a more ponderous gangland saga set in the Japanese mafia than this? It has a novel setting – the Liberdade neighborhood of Sao Paolo, Brazil, home to the largest … Continue reading →

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