Daily Archives: December 13, 2023

Movie Preview: Is Jenna Ortega “Hot for Teacher?” “Miller’s Girl”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

Martin Freeman plays the Tennessee high school teacher and mentor who is challenged by a talented student who decides to tease, test and maybe even ruin him.

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Netflixable? Young, Female and Saudi, Breaking the Rules/Ditched in the Desert — “NAGA”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

A bracing, trippy thriller that lets technique overwhelm a simple story, “NAGA” is like no Saudi film we’ve ever seen before. Writer-director Meshal Al Jaser’s tale of young female (limited) rebellion and a quest to escape a posh party in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Nick Offerman is president, Kirsten Dunst is a journalist covering the next American “Civil War”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

A divided country with a “Florida Alliance” and “Western” forces of Texas and California at war with the central government? Sounds far-fetched but cautionary and not exactly the kind of “escape” people will be looking for next April, in an … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dermot Mulroney’s an escaped convict using an ex-con to track his daughter to the “Breakwater”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

Filmgoers will have two sides of Mulroney available this Christmas. He’s in that Australian-set romance “Anyone But You,” starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell and Alexandra Shipp. That was supposed to come out in January, but Sony is smuggling it into … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Cub Reporter hunts for the “Grudge” behind “The Ghost Station”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

One hair-raising moment in the Korean thriller “The Ghost Station,” a tale of people having subway”accidents” that look like nothing of the sort, involves cell phone tech. Someone points their cell camera down a tunnel. The focus framing outline pops … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Green, Carradine and Danny Trejo in a Western? “The Night They Came Home”

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Roger Moore

This looks indie and non traditional, as far as Westerns go. We are… intrigued. Jan. 12.

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