Daily Archives: February 16, 2024

Get Yourself (and the kids) Centered and Mell-ooo with Po the Panda (Jack Black) — a four hour Meditation video?

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

This is the nuttiest promotion for a movie since a studio sent out boxes of plastic tomatoes to create buzz for “Fried Green Tomatoes.” But it’s different. Check it out. There’s a LOT of Jack Black in this and no, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Korean space blockbuster “The Moon” is The Wrong Stuff

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Excellent production values and solid special effects were squandered on the Korean blockbuster “The Moon,” maybe the dumbest space flight picture since we learned, for certain, that the Moon isn’t made of cheese. It’s a space disaster movie of the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lord Larry’s Sad Song and Dance as “The Entertainer”(1960)

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Seems to me I’ve started watching “The Entertainer” several times over the years, got one look at Lord Olivier in greasepant and gloves, tap dancing and singing, and thought “Well, not tonight.” A melancholy tale of a dying art form … Continue reading →

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Next screening? “Lo fi sci-fi” — Lily Sullivan contemplates a “Monolith”

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Minimalist, paranoid, journalistic, an actor’s opportunity for a tour de force.

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Movie Review: Drone Pilot Crowe steers Hemsworths and Milo through a “Land of Bad”

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Land of Bad” is a solid-enough B-movie combat thriller with the cast and production values of an A-picture. It’s got Oscar winner Russell Crowe as an Air Force drone pilot guiding commandos played by Luke and Liam Hemsworth, Milo Ventimiglia … Continue reading →

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