Daily Archives: October 8, 2022

Movie Preview: Netflix makes a comedy about the last video store in the chain that they killed — “Blockbuster”

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Roger Moore

How meta is that? Not “Facebook” Meta, but…meta. Randall Park? Funny. JB Smoove? Funny. The young and funny and cute surround them. Nov. 3.

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Classic Film Review: A Canadian Gem from Kershner and Robert Shaw, “The Luck of Ginger Coffey” (1964)

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Roger Moore

Images that stick in the mind in “The Luck of Ginger Coffey,” an Irish immigrant’s tale set and shot in a wintry Montreal, often involve the snow, the icy streets. Robert Shaw was not yet a big star. He’d played … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The trenches of World War I, recreated in Buffalo — “Bunker”

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Roger Moore

This cast isn’t household names, the behind the camera talented somewhat unheralded as well, and the look? This can’t be the first time someone thought of Buffalo as *No man’s land.” Sorry. Too easy. Look for “Bunker” early next year.

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Movie Review: Dario Argento’s “Dark Glasses”

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Roger Moore

There’s got to be some truth to the myth that the phrase “an acquired taste” was first applied, in Italian, to that guru of gore Dario Argento and eventually translated into English. Which makes his latest, “Dark Glasses,” something of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Japanese soldier refuses to give up, “Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle”

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Roger Moore

Tales of Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender at the end of World War II long ago entered the realm of legend, and even became a punchline as the decades passed and the myth of the “fanatics” still holding out … Continue reading →

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