Monthly Archives: October 2024

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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Movie Review: “Rumours” of a G-7…zombie assault?

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

When the zombie apocalypse comes, the political animals leading the Western democracies will be powerless to stop it. That’s the big message of “Rumours,” a dry, fitfully amusing horror satire of the ineffectual, word-parsing diplomat-speech of G-7 leadership in the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Indian influencer cedes “CTRL” of her online life at her own peril

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

“CTRL” is a slick and melodramatic Indian variation of the “runaway computer/evil AI” formula, a tale that begins jaunty and jokey and staggers into sinister in the most heavy-handed ways. Ananya Panday stars as Nella, a pretty young woman who … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pierce Brosnan is an Ancient Irishman trying to get to a D-Day anniversary — “The Last Rifleman”

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

White haired, stooped by age and as Irish as he ever lets himself be, we’ve not seen the ex-James Bond like this before. The late John Amos is in this one, with Jürgen Prochnow. It looks and feels exceptionally sentimental, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Liz Hurley’s a Mum who might have to pay the Pied “Piper”

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Candyman movies, Slenderman thrillers, “It!” again and again. Why not a modern day horrific Pied Piper? Stop giggling. Why not, indeed? Puts Elizabeth Hurley on the scary screen roughly at the same as her ex, Hugh Grant, starring as The … Continue reading →

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