Daily Archives: April 17, 2024

Movie Review: Keep Your Distance, Tiny Dancer “Abigail”

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

The blood flows, “Swan Lake” plays on 78 rpm records and “tiny dancer” jokes abound in the revolting and funny “Abigail,” a “dead before dawn” thriller about a kid ballerina kidnap victim who turns out to be a vampire. One … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Photojournalist faces the horror that he will “Disappear Completely”

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

A driven and heartless tabloid photographer finally grasps why some cultures believe a photograph steals part of your soul in “Disappear Completely,” a cerebral and seriously stylish thriller from Mexico. It’s a tale of supernatural comeuppance for a do-anything-for-the-shot mercenary … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: It all comes to a head in “The Big Bend” of Texas

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Big Bend” is a classic “film festival movie.” That’s a quirky indie with several elements that land it in lots of film festivals, where audiences who are down for anything new and novel might find and embrace it. Such … Continue reading →

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Next Screening? It’s “Abigail” night in my corner of America

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

The wee ballerina with the ever-so-sharp teeth tale looks to be a classic “Ten Little Indians,” Who will survive her thriller, with splatter film bloodletting. The names in the cast some will recognize will include young Kathryn Newton, pretty Melissa … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Guy Ritchie makes sport of Commando Combat — “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is a jaunty burlesque of the conventions of the combat commando film. Peopled with genuine characters, in every meaning of that phrase, and a piece of the real history that inspired Ian Fleming … Continue reading →

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