Daily Archives: October 28, 2024

Movie Preview: Brian Cox is an animated Brit Santa — “That Christmas”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Richard Curtis, Mr. “Four Weddings” and “Love Actually,” wrote this Christmas cartoon for Netflix. So of course Bill Nighy’s in it. Fiona Shaw, Guz Khan, and Rhys Darby also take on a couple of voices. What, no Rowan Atkinson? For … 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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Movie Preview: “Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

This doc, narrated by Bogie’s son, comes close on the heels of a recent Bogie/Bacall biography I read and reviewed and promises an equally “intimate” portrait — using home movies, old interviews, etc. Doesn’t appear all that deep and polished, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” celebrates a photographer who captured Apartheid as it Happened

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Ernest Cole worked in South Africa, a little known photographer whose photos were seen the world over as blunt black and white documentation of Black life under Apartheid. Maybe there’s a shot or two of Elon, Peter Thiel and other … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A woman pursued by a serial killer, and paralyzed — “Don’t Move”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Two things you can say for the Sam Raimi-produced thriller “Don’t Move” is that it sprints by — thrillers on the move have to — and that it’s part of a sub-genre that has proven a goldmine in decades past … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan stars in “Love Hurts”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Quan (“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Goonies” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once”) co-stars with Ariana Dubose, Marshawn Lynch, Daniel Wu, Cam Gigandet, Sean Astin and Rhys Darby in this caper comedy set to open the week before … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ralph Fiennes tries to Herd Back-Stabbing Archbishops through a Papal “Conclave”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

A pope dies and over 100 of his archbishops gather to politic, poor-mouth, backbite and backstab their way towards electing another in “Conclave,” a deliciously dark, well-acted and beautifully-filmed inside-Vatican-intrigues thriller. Director Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front”), … Continue reading →

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