Daily Archives: July 12, 2023

Documentary Review: Black and Trans, or Trans-attracted — “Kokomo City” street life

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Roger Moore

Friend, if you can’t get an entertaining documentary built around defiant, defensive, sassy and verbose Black transgender sex-workers, you’re talking to the WRONG Black transgender sex workers. Transgender filmmaker D. Smith finds a fascinating subjects to profile in New York, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Temuera Morrison and Isabel Lucas star in a Down Under surfing thriller, “Sons of Summer”

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Roger Moore

Shades of “Point Break,” mate. Looks solid and salty. July 28.

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Movie Review: A brooding, self-absorbed writer looks up to find his world “Afire”

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Roger Moore

Leon talks a good game. He’s come to the summer house of a friend, in the forest set back from the sea, to “work.” He has “a manuscript” and a “deadline.” The friend — Felix — wants to dash off … Continue reading →

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Today’s DVD Donation? “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” Maitland, Fla?

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Roger Moore

I really enjoyed this moody Chinese film noir about an inmate remembering why he’s in prison. “Spare, dark and gritty,” an award winner at Cannes, this Film Movement release deserves a bigger audience. Now the good folks of Maitland, Florida … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Matthau and Glenda evade Beatty, Waterston and Herbert Lom in a little game of “Hopscotch” (1980)

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Roger Moore

The first time I heard that Britishism disguised by the clever British acronym “Cee YoU Next Tuesday” was right around the first of October, 1980. And because it came out of the plummy, posh Oscar-winning mouth of the late Glenda … Continue reading →

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