Daily Archives: December 14, 2021

Movie Preview: A caper comedy with Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson and Marc Maron? As critters? “The Bad Guys”

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Roger Moore

It’s animated and out in April.

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Movie Review: Chinese experts battle and chase after clues to a great treasure — “Schemes in Antiques”

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Roger Moore

How well do you figure the “National Treasure” movies played, how easily understandable were they to international audiences with even less knowledge of the arcana of American history than the average U.S. Joe? That’s something I pondered while watching a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Nicolas Cage is…NICOLAS CAGE in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Roger Moore

This send up of Cage’s rep, image and last dozen years of career choices, not all of them “Pig,” could go either way…great or not so much. What do you think, based on this first teaser?

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Movie Review: The comedy and the drama of “Being the Ricardos”

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Roger Moore

Of all the “reconsiderations” that this fall’s glorious crop of big screen biographies has imposed long-held preconceptions, none more alters our view of its subjects than “Being the Ricardos,” Aaron Sorkin’s revival of the “I Love Lucy” of myth and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Affleck and Sheridan Shine in Clooney’s Shambolic “The Tender Bar”

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Roger Moore

A fatherless kid and future writer comes of age in the working class Long Island of the ’70s and ’80s, mentored by an autodidact uncle in “The Tender Bar,” a film based on a memoir by J.R. Moehringer. It makes … Continue reading →

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