Daily Archives: November 28, 2023

Movie Review: French Siblings Face Tests and Trauma trying to become astronauts — “Tropic”

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Roger Moore

“Tropic” is tale of brotherly bonds sorely tested by an “accident,” set against their schooling for a competition to see who is fittest to be among France’s long-mission space colonists. The latest by director and co-writer Edouard Salier (“Cabeza Madre”) … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: As the West Burns, the “Fireline” is stretched thin

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Roger Moore

Documentary filmmaker Tylor Norwood embedded himself with California firefighters battling the million acre “Dixie Fire” of 2021 for “Fireline,” a new documentary about the dangerous work and ever-worsening fire situation in California and around the world in a warming, drying … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Coming-of-Age-Summer story on the Rez — “Frybread Face and Me”

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Roger Moore

“Frybread Face and Me” is a sweet, downbeat and somewhat melancholy coming-of-age tale about a Navajo “city Indian” sent to spend the summer of 1990 in the reservation where his mother grew up. Writer-director Billy Luther, who is of Navajo, … Continue reading →

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