Daily Archives: July 12, 2022

Monty Norman, “Bond Theme” composer, dies at 94

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roger Moore

The perfect, timeless tune that outlived Bond villains, Bond films and Bonds RIP, Monty Norman.

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Documentary Review: Vulcanologists Live and Die for their passion in “Fire of Love”

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roger Moore

The trailers to the documentary “Fire of Love” play up the weirdness, the “obsession” of the husband and wife French vulcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and suggest that they were dilletantes who died doing something they loved but perhaps didn’t … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan and Ray Stevenson fret over a hostage soccer stadium — “Final Score”

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roger Moore

A quick shout out here to the unheralded hero of many a movie, the casting director. That person is responsible for populating the background faces in group scenes, and in bringing in the right folks for smaller supporting roles. Not … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” is so much bubbly, frothy fun that it makes you wonder how “feel good movies” ever got a bad name. Director Anthony Fabian and a team of co-writers make this glorious, feather-light period piece effortlessly … Continue reading →

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Today’s DVD donation? A filmmaker digs into the story behind a landmark Uruguayan film that went “Straight to VHS”

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roger Moore

The DVD cover is much more lascivious than the documentary it contains, or the tepid movie that inspired it, and apparently a generation of South American filmmakers who saw it and thought, “I can do that.” That’s what the Spanish … Continue reading →

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