Daily Archives: November 13, 2024

Movie Preview: Kyle Mooney imagines what MIGHT have happened on “Y2K”

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Saturday Night Live” alumnus Mooney and music video director Evan Winter (credited as co-writer here) dreamed up an alt reality where instead of Bill Clinton & Co. planning for and preventing a cyber meltdown of computers on Jan 1, 2000, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Beckinsale’s a CIA agent blackmailed into killing her way to “Canary Black”

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

The main draw of a genre film is the promise of cinematic comfort food. A faintly Byzantine plot, some solid action beats delivered by genre veterans in front of and behind the camera and a few pithy turns of phrase … Continue reading →

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