Monthly Archives: October 2024

Movie Preview: Another raunchy, rowdy trip to the Bowling Alley — “The Gutter”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Shades of “Kingpin!”  Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Susan Sarandon and Paul Reiser are among the stars of this farce that adds some color — and flava — to…bowling? “It’s Walt Liquor time, baby!” “The Gutter” rolls on Nov. 1.

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Movie Review: Chinese expat learns to trust “luck” on her “Green Night” with a Korean Drug-smuggling Pixie

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

An airport security guard finds her life upended by a sketchy/flirty pixie in green hair and fingernails in “Green Night,” a Chinese romantic thriller starring Fan Bingbing that gives international exposure to Ms. Trouble in Green, Korean starlet Lee Joo-young. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Damon, Norton, Famke, Turturro and Landau deal the cards — “Rounders” (1998)

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

The knock on “Rounders” (1998) was always that it was, to quote a review or two at the time of its release, “lazy.” It’s a genre pic, gamblers’ ups and downs as one (Matt Damon) tries to focus on law … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, “The Order”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

An Aryan Nation investigation out in Secessionist America (Idaho), starring Jude Law and Jurnee Smollett on the hunt for anti government Nazis/racists/militia nuts who rob banks and bomb synagogues, with Nicholas Hoult on the wrong side and Tye Sheridan as … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Laura and Liam visit Travel Guide Morocco — “Lonely Planet”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

With Diane and Bruce as my witnesses, I swear I never thought I’d see Oscar winner Laura Dern in a movie as empty and pointless as “Lonely Planet.” But Susannah Grant, the screenwriter of “Erin Brockovich” and “The Soloist,” took … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: John & Yoko take over Daytime TV for a Week of Peace, Love, Music and Macrobiotics — “Daytime Revolution”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

On Valentine’s Day 1972, daytime TV viewers across America — senior retirees, college kids between classes, “housewives” and kids coming home from school — were treated to something entirely novel on their TV. The pleasantly bland “Mike Douglas Show,” hosted … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Deformed, then “Cured,” but is he “A Different Man?”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

An artist, the old saying goes, is “someone who pounds the same nail, over and over again.” So it’s not a shock that “Chained for Life” writer-director Aaron Schimberg returns to the subject of beauty, disfigurement and the ways society … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Trump learns to Lie, Cheat, Betray and Steal to get what he wants as “The Apprentice”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

Before Donald Trump came along, Roy Cohn was widely regarded as one of the most repellent, unscrupulous and unrepetently divisive figures in American political history. A virulently ruthless right wing lawyer, extortionist and political operator, a self-loathing Jew who crowed … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: How did we Ever get through a Weekend without “Saturday Night” Live?

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

As history, “Saturday Night” is the ultimate exercise in “OK, Boomer” nostalgia for “the first generation to grow up on TV.” As entertainment, Jason Reitman’s putting-on-a-show comedy about the chaotic 1975 opening night of “Saturday Night Live” is a breathless … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pharrell Williams tells his story in Legos — “Piece by Piece”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

I’m not sure the world asked for a documentary on the rise of one-hat/one-big-hit wonder Pharrell Williams, much less one turned into a Lego animated spectacle. But darned if it isn’t the most adorable, upbeat rendering of an Up-from-the-Projects musical … Continue reading →

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