Daily Archives: July 22, 2024

Movie Review: A little old to be a “Space Cadet”

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

You scroll through your Amazon Prime queue and notice that there’s an Emma Roberts comedy called “Space Cadet,” a film that she just made it and that it’s not some project you missed from her teens and 20s (she’s 33). … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Summer ends with a Broad Burlesque of a Belgian Caper Comedy — Abel & Gordon’s “The Falling Star”

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Look at the sight gags, reason out the plot, read the jokey subtitles. Aug 30.

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Movie Preview: Every Rom Com runs on “Surprise!”

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Melanie Thompson, Bryce Harrow and Marisa Hood are part of a”Surprise!” Birthday party where things go wrong. And romantic? August 13.

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Movie Review: Same-sex Love’s first blush arrives in 1938 Fascist Italy — “The Beautiful Summer”

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Beautiful Summer (La bella estate)” is a sumptuous Italian period piece, a “discovering my sexuality” romance that’s gorgeous to look at, frame by frame. But when the frame moves, the story those images slowly tell is shallow and slight, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Screwball, with a Social Justice Message — “My Man Godfrey” (1936)

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

“My Man Godfrey” struck a nerve when it opened in the middle of The Great Depression. It’s a nerve that it strikes to this very day. A movie that presents the idle rich as “empty-headed nitwits,” with even the more … Continue reading →

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