Daily Archives: November 21, 2021

Movie Review: Belgian paraplegic faces the horrors of “The Advent Calendar (Le calendrier)”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

As Advent is now upon us — the original Catholic countdown to Christmas before America invented “Shopping Days” to keep better track — this is the perfect season to unleash a horror movie about an evil artifact attached to this … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “troubled boy” redeemed by…stained glass? “The Pit”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

This is Latvia’s selection in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars It comes our way Dec. 17, via Film Movement.

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Netflixable? Jeremy Piven’s sad and lovelorn in “My Dad’s Christmas Date”

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

Yes, the title “My Dad’s Christmas Date” gives away the movie. But who do you think of when you hear this line? “My Dad spends Monday nights in church.” How about NOT Jeremy Piven? The former Cusack sidekick and second … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Lump of Coal from Capra, “A Hole in the Head” (1959)

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Roger Moore

All most folks remember about Frank Capra’s next-to-last film is Frank Sinatra introducing “High Hopes” in it, sung in a duet with the cinema’s “other” 1950s redheaded little boy, Eddie Hodges. “High Hopes” won the best original song Oscar, and … Continue reading →

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