Daily Archives: May 12, 2024

Movie Preview: Alicia Vikander is a lesser-known wife of Henry VIII (Jude Law) — “Firebrand”

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Vikander plays the last and perhaps toughest of the Six Wives of Henry XIII, Kateryn (Catherine) Parr, the one who tempted fate and stood up to the murderous monarch and lived to tell the tale. This summer release is from … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Mel Gibson works again, as does 50 Cent, in the “Boneyard”

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Brian Van Holt also stars in this serial killer thriller. The serial killer might be a “cop?” “The Bone Collector,” they call the man they’re hunting. Gibson plays an FBI Agent/profiler, Curtis Jackson a police chief. This Lionsgate release drops … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A problem child, a problematic tuned-out Dad, connected by “Ghostlight” and the Theatre

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Theater actor Keith Kupferer and daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer star in this dramedy about what it takes to create a problem child, and how acting can connect even people who have trouble remembering their lines to their feelings. June 14, … Continue reading →

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Roger Corman, 1926-2024 — A film life worth Celebrating

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Maverick movie maker, indie icon, “Pope of Pop Cinema,” sponsor of the careers of the great and near great, Roger Corman made a singular mark on the movies over a career that spanned half a century. Directors Demme and Coppola … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Nicholson, Dern and Burstyn poke at the corpse of Atlantic City — “The King of Marvin Gardens” (1972)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Long before its gambling revival and later slow return to decay, long before Louis Malle’s 1980 drama “Atlantic City,” the historic but forlorn resort city had been emblematic of American ennui, a place of elegaic, baroque nostalgia and decline. The … Continue reading →

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