Daily Archives: April 5, 2022

Netflixable? A Soapy Sex Triangle from India in shades of “Cobalt Blue”

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Cobalt Blue” is an Indian “Call Me By Your Name,” a gay lad’s sexual coming-of-age tale that shares torrid sexual encounters and a few other details from the André Aciman novel that screenwriter James Ivory turned into Oscar bait film … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The losses of the Great War overwhelm everyone on “Mothering Sunday”

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Mothering Sunday” is a somber, sad tale of the gutting emptiness of loss, the unspoken-of absences of everyone who died in The Great War as remembered by an adult writer who saw this all first hand during her years “in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Stop Motion Animation at it’s quirkiest, “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

This started life as a short and evolved into a feature film, an “interview” with the titular mollusk, with the voices of Jenny Slate, Isabella Rossellini, Thomas Mann and as the interviewer, Leslie Stahl. A24 has this one, due to … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hackman’s a jock-turned-PI practicing his “Night Moves” (1975)

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Night Moves” is one of those ’70s to early ’80s Hollywood noirs you channel surf by, get a taste of and say “I need to come back and catch this bad boy from the beginning.” It’s got Gene Hackman, stepping … Continue reading →

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