Monthly Archives: October 2024

Movie Review: Church and Politics mix and mingle among the “Godless”

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Godless” is a self-serious drama about the collision of politics and faith with a couple of decent moments and solid lead performances by Ana Ortiz and Harry Lennix going for it. Working against it are a static staginess in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Lad is Tested, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine”

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Roger Moore

A piece of Maine woodlands lore comes to the screen in “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” a sturdy indie retelling of the story of a boy battling long odds against his survival in the dense woods and ever-changing weather … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Documentary captures “Martha” Stewart in her Multitudes

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

At her zenith, Martha Stewart could come off as insufferable, an icy perfectionist who’d never let a hair seem out of place or a place setting pass that didn’t have hand-made touches. But even her haters had a hunch she … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Reiser and Sarandon and Shameik take bowling into “The Gutter” in this farce

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

A just-clever-enough conceit and generally cheerful performances are almost enough to put over “The Gutter,” a coarse and comically crude bowling farce featuring an Oscar winner and a Black bowler who just might take over “the whitest sport” while no … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: More Teased than Terrified by What’s Behind that “Cellar Door”

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Cellar Door” is an attempt at the thriller-as-parable, a suspenseful story about a troubled couple tested by temptation and the ugly “answers” they might find by peeking behind that which they’ve been warned to never open, the cellar door of … Continue reading →

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Teri Garr: The funny Blonde Next Door –1944-2024

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

Teri Garr, a character actress always good for a giggle, who always won our sympathy and who even collected an Oscar nomination for her comedic skills, has died. A scene stealer from the mid-career films of Elvis Presley, to TV’s … Continue reading →

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Chalamet goes “Subterranean” for this music video from “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

Searchlight is doing a swell job of convincing us Timothee can impersonate Bob Dylan. As to the story the movie tells and the way it tells it? Dec. 25 we’ll have a take on that.

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Movie Review: Martial artist attacks like a “Bangkok Dog”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s a charismatic theatricality to the way stuntman, actor and martial artist D.Y. Sao lands a blow and makes sure to give us his best Bruce Lee Face as he does. That skill, and his fists and feet of fury … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Berkeley Breathed animates a Porcine Pet Bounty Hunter — “Hitpig!”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

Any children’s cartoon built around an armed loner/bounty hunter named “Hitpig!” was always going to be a dubious undertaking. But it was created by longtime “Bloom County” cartoonist Berkely Breathed. So it’s worth pondering. His cracked, kid-friendly (allegedly) vision comes … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “The Killing Fields” (1984) at 40, Adventure, Heart and Horror in a High-Minded Epic

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Some classic films can overwhelm you with the memories of when you saw them, of the era that created them and of the stars who gained their immortality in filming them. “The Killing Fields” came out fresh enough on the … Continue reading →

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