Daily Archives: December 16, 2023

BOX OFFICE: Willy “Wonka” over $39 — “Boy and the Heron” fly off, “Beyonce” is Bye, Bey

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Roger Moore

A big holiday musical based on a character by Roald Dahl is proving almost irresistable for filmgoers, as a decent Thursday and big Friday point to “Wonka,” the prequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” raking in $39 million+ on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Hopkins and Goode are Sigmund and C.S. Lewis squaring off in “Freud’s Last Session”

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Roger Moore

“Freud’s Last Session” is a period piece about an imagined meeting between the Father of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and an “Oxford don,” the emerging “Christian apologist” who would go on to write “The Chronicles of Narnia,” C.S. Lewis. Based on … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: David Alan Grier’s “Moment” continues — “The American Society of Magical Negroes”

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Roger Moore

Grier is great in “The Color Purple.” And here he is again, in something more off-center and sly. Limited release March 22.

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