Daily Archives: November 9, 2023

Movie Review: Aged writer weighs whether to be “Forever Young”

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Roger Moore

“Forever Young” is yet another “speculative fiction” tale that takes senior citizens for a dainty dip in the Fountain of Youth. It’s a somber, downbeat drama in which the familiar themes about how old age is “earned” and how some … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Trapped in Social Media Purgatory, forced to “Share?” to survive

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Roger Moore

He wakes up in his underwear, trapped in a modernist but spare cell with track lighting, a computer terminal, a sink, a toilet and a lot of questions, one of which matters most of all. “What’s going on?” It’s not … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Rustin” brings an inspiring Gay Civil Rights Hero to Life

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Roger Moore

He was all but “erased” from the history of the famous 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” of 1963, where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. took center stage as America’s greatest orator and the Conscience of the … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: An animated Jeff Goldblum seeks a lost figure in Bossa Nova — “They Shot the Piano Player”

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Roger Moore

The effortlessly cool actor and jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum becomes literally animated for the Fernando Trueba doc about the late ’50s Bossa Nova craze, the world’s love affair with Brazilian music and a seminal figure in that movement whose life … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Let’s Drench “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Roger Moore

A couple of hard and fast rules of the cinema are proven again in “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella,” a dark screwball conspiracy thriller set along California’s wildly eccentric Salton Sea “coast.” One rule says you should never ever set … Continue reading →

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