Daily Archives: December 29, 2021

Series Review: “The Book of Boba Fett” was born in the “Star Wars” remainders bin

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Roger Moore

“Star Wars” fans should have figured out long ago that Disney wasn’t going to shut down the assembly line for “new content” in this timeworn “galaxy far far away.” Not until someone — ANYone — said, “All right, that’s enough” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Bat and the Cat light up this trailer for “The Batman”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Roger Moore

R. Patts and Zoe K., with Andy Serkis playing a different sort of Alfred. Love the mayhem of it all. The comic book noir “Bat” stuff is pretty played, but not played-out. Peter Sarsgaard, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Coming of age above the Russian Arctic Circle — “The Whaler Boy (Kitoboy)”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Roger Moore

There are a few elements of writer-director Philip Yuryev’s “The Whaler Boy” that are off-putting enough to warrant addressing them straight off. It opens with a luridly-detailed behind-the-scenes look at an online sex-chat brothel, a scene that goes on longer … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Grumpy loner longs to be “1000 Miles from Christmas ( A mil kilómetros de la Navidad)”

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Roger Moore

Here’s one last “Around the World with Netflix” holiday offering for 2021. Better yet, think of “1000 Miles from Christmas” as the first holiday film of 2022. Let’s get an early start — 360 days before Christmas — on the … Continue reading →

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