Monthly Archives: September 2024

Movie Review: Kane crackles and Schwartzman shakes the sads “Between the Temples”

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Roger Moore

An amusing pixie since birth, Carol Kane is a comic life force and as amusing in person as she is in her many off-the-wall characters — from “Taxi” to “The Princess Bride,” “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and beyond. The “Hester … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mixed Messaging and Suspended Suspense hobble Child Trafficking tale “City of Dreams”

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

With the discredited blockbuster sham “Sound of Freedom” still fresh on everyone’s mind, critics can be excused for steering clear “City of Dreams,” another human trafficking tale, this one about Mexican kids lured to America only to be trapped in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Abusive Dad Should Know Better than to Raise Three Sons to be Hunters — “Betrayal”

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s usually a “took me right out of the movie” moment in a thriller that might have worked, but doesn’t. And there are a few of those in the Scottish tale of an abusive father and his three vengeful sons … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Masterpiece that reminds us why there is a Labor Day — “Matewan”(1987)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Matewan” is a classic film that looms large in the memory and does not disappoint upon the second, third or fifth viewing. This may be the greatest indie epic ever, a documentary-real historical film of scope, high stakes and great … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Lee Daniels’ “The Deliverance” is a parody of Horror in the ‘Hood

Posted on September 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

Lee Daniels’ “The Deliverance” is lumbering and lurid long before it shows its African American-styled exorcism hand and turns ludicrous. It’s a sordid wallow in working poor Black poverty, and the presence of Glenn Close as the white matriarch of … Continue reading →

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