Daily Archives: August 22, 2024

Series Preview: Apple Remakes documentary “Midnight Family” as a drama series

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Remember the jaw-dropping 2019 documentary “Midnight Family,” about Mexico City’s competitive “private” ambulance services and one family struggling to stay afloat saving lives for profit? Boy, I do. Medical capitalism’s end game plays like a slice of dystopian science fiction. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Elizabeth Banks dons an accent for a Brit medical drama — “A Mistake?”

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Simon McBurney co-stars in this British film that Quiver picked up. Never heard this accent from Banks. It raises an eyebrow, to be sure. Does it make the title a pun?

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For Online Media, it’s “Evolve or Die” — Rotten Tomatoes tries to Do Both

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

The news that the movie review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes was making yet another attempt to dumb down its “ratings” and pander to the movies that filmgoers today are flocking to — quality, merit and artistic ambition be damned — … Continue reading →

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