Daily Archives: August 5, 2024

Movie Preview: Saoirse is an Orkney Islands native struggling with substance abuse — “The Outrun”

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

This Nora Fingscheidt film is based on Amy Lipsot’s poetic coming-through-the-other-side memoir. Awards season, here we come!

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Classic Film Review: Delon and Melville serve up the Quintessential Hit-Man thriller — “Le Samouraï” (1967)

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Le samouraï” (1967) is rightly regarded as the hit-man movie, the one which most modern thrillers in this lone-gunman genre spin out of. It’s got a handsome solitary “Killer,” living in a non-descript apartment with only a pet bullfinch (not … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The horrors that wash ashore with a “special child” on “The King Tide”

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

Frances Fisher is the big name in the cast of this “island girl with powers” thriller. Clayne Crawford and Michael Greyeyes also star. Not sure of the streaming/theatrical date, but Vertical Releasing has this one.

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Movie Preview: Mercedes Ruehl goes viral in “The Nana Project”

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

This cute old coot comedy stars an Oscar winner. Not that this incompetent trailer tells us that. It opens Sept. 10. Not that this incompetent trailer tells us that. It’s from Gravitas Ventures. At least they own that and got … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Zoë Kravitz directs this last pre-release peek at Channing Tatum at his creepiest — “Blink Twice”

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

Naomie Ackie, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment and Alia Shawkat also star in this “billionaire’s island” nightmare from actress turned writer-director Zoë K. August 23.

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Netflixable? A Shakespearean spin on Nigerian history — “House of Ga’a”

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

“House of Ga’a” is a sweeping historical epic from Nigeria, a tale of backstabbing and poisoning intrigues, lust, brutality and greed set just before the events depicted in the West Africa of “The Woman King.” There’s a universality to this … Continue reading →

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