Daily Archives: September 6, 2024

Documentary Preview: “Will & Harper” puts “SNL” vets on the road after Will Ferrell’s friend and former co-worker “transitions”

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

This doc feature about funny friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele on a road trip will play in theaters to qualify for Oscar consideration, and roll onto Netflix Sept. 27. It’s a doc that gives the lie to the gay/”pronoun” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The terrors of AI should make us more “AfrAId” than this

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

Chris Weitz’s “AfrAId” lays out the benefits and perils of entrusting our lives and world to artificial intelligence well enough. A supercomputer-powered gadget that entertains, teaches, takes on research and onerous paperwork and can even diagnose health issues while maintaining … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Joyless Return to the Wonders of Burtonland — “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

Nostalgic, whimsically-detailed and production-designed to death, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is “fan service” with a capital “F.” It reunites Michael Keaton with one of his iconic roles, and with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara from 1988’s “Beetlejuice” and revives the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The horrors of Elder Care and New Motherhood clash in “The Front Room”

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

Long before the abrupt, not-that-shocking and obvious anti-climax of the horror thriller “The Front Room,” the viewer may feel entitled to mutter, “So what is this really about?” A dark, serio-comic tussle with post partum depression? An unsubtle poke at … Continue reading →

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