Daily Archives: January 7, 2024

An Oscar winning Icon and an Actor Having Another “Moment” Turns 60 today

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s taken a lot of intestinal fortitude to remain a Nic Cage Completist over the years. An Oscar winner for “Leaving Las Vegas,” great in films all over the spectrum — from “Raising Arizona” and “Peggy Sue Got Married” to … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Espionage, Murder, Infidelity and a Detective on the “Sleeping Car to Trieste” (1948)

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

What a delightful little French-flavored English bon bon this is. “Sleeping Car to Trieste” may be a corny, old-fashioned “Orient Express” rail-bound thriller, peppered with intrigues both deadly and quaintly silly. But by the time this sleeper hits the third … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Crash Survivors Fight Hunger, Cold and the Andes as a “Society of the Snow”

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Perhaps you run into the same reservation I do when considering Netflix’s latest version of the Andean survival epic “Society of the Snow,” a new retelling of the harrowing survival story immortalized in the non-fiction book “Alive,” the terrific 1993 … Continue reading →

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