Daily Archives: January 16, 2024

Movie Review: “Disco Boy” French Foreign Legionaire is Tested by the Horrors of Service

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

A young Belarusian immigrant finds himself questioning his “deal” with the French Foreign Legion — enlistment and service in exchange for citizenship — after a particularly brutal combat encounter in “Disco Boy,” a dreamy Immigrant’s Experience Odyssey from writer-director Giacomo … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Brazil’s Oscar hopes are pinned on a movie about movies — “Pictures of Ghosts”

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

This looks lovely, affectionate and nostalgic. Speaking as someone who was a celluloid projectionist in college and a cinema critic pretty much ever since, I mean.

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Movie Review: “Down the rabbit hole” with “Alice and the Vampire Queen”

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

There are worse ideas than resetting “Alice” of ”Through the Looking Glass/in Wonderland” fame as a culinary horror comedy about cooking for vampires. Any non-vampire sucked into that world is going to have it “explained” to her the way so much … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Timothy Spall, all worked up over “Wicked Little Letters”

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Anjana Vasan, Lolly Adefope and Gemma Jones also star in this colorblind casting 1920s farce. Looks quite the hoot, wot wot? Feb. Release in the UK.

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Movie Preview: Carey Mulligan and Isabella Rossellini support “Spaceman” Adam Sandler in this spacey Netflix film

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

The creators of “Chernobyl” got into business with Netflix and Adam Sandler for this existential drama. Off brand for Sandler, no matter how many “serious” pictures he’s done. Paul Dano is the voice of the space spider in this Czech … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Klaus Kinski and Christopher Lee seek “Secret of the Red Orchid” (1962)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

It is known by many titles — “Monster of London,” “L’Orchidée rouge” “Secret of the Red Orchid” and, in its original language — German — “Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee.” And if this almost campy, daft and dumb crime thriller … Continue reading →

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