Daily Archives: March 9, 2024

Denzel’s Victory Lap — “Othello” on Broadway in 2025

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Denzel Washington will have the title role and that sketchy Jake Gyllenhaal will take on the venomous Iago in what is sure to be THE hot ticket on Broadway in 2025, a new production of “Othello.” Brian Anthony Moreland is … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “Frida,” in her own words

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

The great Mexican sensualist gets a first rate bio-doc treatment from some of the people who made “RBG.” This comes to Amazon Prime March 14.

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Classic Film Review: Touchstone Cinema, De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” (1948)

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Classic films give us cineliteracy. They change the way we look at every movie afterward, how we talk about films, and they grant us entry into a new way of seeing the world and the movies about it. Movies like … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Millie Bobby Brown takes a stab at being a “Damsel”

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Millie Bobby Brown doth not suffer in silence as the tormented, burned and embattled heroine of “Damsel.” A violent upending of women’s roles in fairytale fantasies, much of it is spent with her title character struggling to escape a dragon’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Russell Crowe’s a sick detective who should let “Sleeping Dogs” lie

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Crowe and Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas and Tommy Flanagan star in this mystery/thriller based on the novel by E.O. Chirovici. Crowe plays an ex homocide detective with brain issues, memory problems and a possibly innocent man he wants to save. … Continue reading →

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