Daily Archives: December 20, 2023

Movie Review: Animated “Migration” is one long parent-child inside joke

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Roger Moore

It takes a while to figure out the sweet spot that writer Mike White (“School of Rock”?) was going for with “Migration.” It’s got a lot of funny people doing voices — Kumail Nanjiani, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key going Jamaican “mon,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: Animated “Migration” is one long parent-child inside joke

Netflixable? Inspired by “Ghost Town,” remade and remade again — “Hello Ghost”

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Roger Moore

There have always been movie remakes, as long before the words “intellectual property” became common currency, studios were remaking scripts or books they had the rights to. Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” was not just a 1944 classic with … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Netflixable? Inspired by “Ghost Town,” remade and remade again — “Hello Ghost”

Movie Review: YA Fantasy in German-accented English — “Silver and the Book of Dreams”

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Roger Moore

It’s about time filmmakers turned their attention away from English-language young adult fantasy fiction and returned to the land where the Western tradition in literary fantasy began, in the land of the Brothers Grimm. But the Amazon/MGM production of Kerstin … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: YA Fantasy in German-accented English — “Silver and the Book of Dreams”