Daily Archives: August 19, 2022

Documentary Review: Charles Booker takes on #MoscowMitch in “From the Hood to the Holler”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

“From the Hood to the Holler” is about “west Side” Louisville state representative Charles Booker’s long shot campaign to unseat Kentucky’s all-powerful Mitch McConnell, “the man who broke the Senate,” back in 2020. Booker ran as an under-funded outsider, against … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: The Buñuel version of “Diary of a Chambermaid” (1964)

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

Who knows where a role playing fetish begins? Perhaps the whole “Dress up like a French maid” thing began with the swells who took the grand tour of Europe and brought back a taste for servants in short black uniforms. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Zac Efron attempts “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

A Vietnam drama with a head on it. Really happened? Looks “out there,” sobering and maybe funny. With great music. A September 30 release on Apple TV+.

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Movie preview: Horror gets an early jump on the season — “The Day After Halloween”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

A grisly indie murder mystery with darkly comic undertones. This one streams VOD next week.

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Movie Preview: Sally Hawkins sets out to find “The Lost King,” the burial place of Richard III

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

The “true” story of a middle-aged woman who gets obsessed with finding England’s most infamous monarch as a sort of midlife/career-stalled crisis. Steve Coogan plays her quizzical, amused husband, and Harry Lloyd is the Ghost of “A horse, a HORSE, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero”

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roger Moore

A serious upgrade in “Dragon Ball” franchise animation runs up against the same overdoses of exposition, endless back story and arcane plot contrivances designed to pit characters against each other in epic throwdowns in “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.” Honestly, … Continue reading →

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