Daily Archives: October 6, 2023

Netflixable? Vengeance in Pointe Shoe Pixie Form — “Ballerina”

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Roger Moore

Any list of the best vengeance thrillers of recent vintage has to include Park Chan-Wook’s “Oldboy” andHans Petter Moland’s “In Order of Disappearance.” Add your favorite here, because there are lots of examples through film history, movies about a great … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: WWII Hungarians in the USSR contend with partisans and atrocities in the grey “Natural Light”

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Roger Moore

The company is Hungarian, pressed into service with their German allies occupying a corner of the partially-conquered Soviet Union during World War II. But as they troop through the dreary woods, drifting from one fraught encounter with the locals to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Costner finally makes his “How the West Was Won” — a Two Part Western Epic, “Horizon: An American Saga”

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Roger Moore

If you’ve ever seen a Kevin Costner interview or heard an acceptance speech from him, you know his “movie that changed my life” was the big, bloated Cinerama Western “How the West was Won,” an all-star epic that took viewers … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Willa, Dermot and Shane and Chevelles — If the Stereotypes Fit, it must be “The Dirty South”

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Roger Moore

That’s Willa Holland, Dermot Mulroney and Shane West starring in a honky tonks and Chevy Chevelles and small town corruption and cover-ups. “The Dirty South” indeed.

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