Monthly Archives: August 2022

Documentary Review: Terry Gilliam tilts at one last windmill, “He Dreams of Giants”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roger Moore

Visionary writer-director Terry Gilliam‘s “Quixotic” thirty year pursuit of getting his idea for a Don Quixote movie on screen ended a couple of years ago when “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” finally premiered and went on to a desultory … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Get away from “Carter”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roger Moore

Wow. Never have I ever seen more cinematic “wow” wasted on a bad action script than this Korean cavalcade of crap. “Carter” has a sky-diving fight that out Tom Cruises every “Mission: Impossible.” It has a bloodbath in a bathhouse, … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Exposing Muybridge” remembers a cinema pioneer, an “eccentric” killer and a grand footnote to “Nope”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roger Moore

If you’ve seen “Nope,” you recall Jordan Peele’s clever, folkloric connection of the characters in his latest film to the “inventor” of cinema, Eadweard Muybridge. The stunt-horse training family under alien assault on a remote Southern Cal horse ranch — … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Start Football Season right, with the documentary “Kaepernick & America”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roger Moore

This doc about a quarterback who became a symbol opens Sept. 2.

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Movie Review: Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” celebrates 5,000 heroes

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

There’s a gloriously workmanlike quality to everything about Ron Howard’s fine film of the famous Tham Lunag cave rescue in Thailand, “Thirteen Lives.” It’s one of those real-life thrillers like Eastwood’s “Sully” or Howard’s own “Apollo 13,” a celebration of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? German goon “Buba” has some growing up to do in this dark comedy

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“Buba” is a spinoff movie from a comic German TV series titled “How to Sell Drugs Online Fast,” which I’ve not seen. So when I say I kind of got into the film’s dark, masochistic comic vibe but found it … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Beware the Rideshare driver named “Dawn”

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

Jesus, I hate bad dialogue. Even in a torture porn C-movie, it grates. It’s not that one doesn’t notice the pitiless, pointless slaughter, the heartless cruelty and bad acting. Idiotic plot? Let’s throw that in, too. But bad lines badly-delivered? … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Lebanese couple hit “The Road” from noisy Beirut

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

“The Road” is one of the most evocative two word titles in all of cinema. It brings up memories of Fellini’s Italian road picture, “La Strada,” the romance of “Two for the Road,” the adaptation of Kerouac’s “On the Road,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ian Niles master the art of fibbing — “Lie Hard”

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

August 16, the hustle hits. Could be funny.

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Movie Preview: A feminist musical story of hip hop in Islamic, French Speaking Morocco– “Casablanca Beats”

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

If hip hop breaks big among women in the Muslim world, look out. Look for this Kino Lorber release Sept. 16.

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