Daily Archives: May 5, 2022

Movie Preview: Vanessa Redgrave lends gravitas to a distaff take on Neverland –“The Lost Girls”

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

Making Wendy a bigger deal in this story has been a thing for a decade or more. “The Lost Girls” promises to be the most Wendy centric version yet. June 17.

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Movie Review: The exquisite simplicity of “Petite Maman”

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Petite Maman” is a memory play for children, a children’s fantasy for grown-ups. The latest film from Céline Sciamma, who gave us the Oscar-winning “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” is an understated and distinctly adult look at childhood, death … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “40-Love” stumbles in love and laughs, if not tennis

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

What a tin-eared foot-fault of a comedy “40-Love” is. Built around ineptly sketched-in characters not saved by the actors playing them, stumbling through scene after illogical and painfully-unfunny-but-meant-to-be-funny scenes, the number of actual laughs it produces you can count on … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Comic Jo Koy brings the Filipino-American giggles to “Easter Sunday”

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

Tiffany Haddish and Tia Carrere also star in this Koy-engineered August release. They say Lou Diamond Phillips is also in it. Not getting a “Fabulous Filipino Brothers” indie/working class and funny vibe from this. More upscale and contrived, as in … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Gary Cooper’s transgressive-for-its-time “Return to Paradise” (1953)

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

Hollywood’s long affair with James A. Michener, the World War II Navy veteran whose “Tales of the South Pacific” launched a Pulitzer-prize winning literary career, began with a sort of proof-of-concept film. Long before the musical “South Pacific,” United Artists, … Continue reading →

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