Daily Archives: November 17, 2024

Movie Review: Dumb action gets dumber, “Get Fast”

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Stupid is as stupid does,” and stupid’s entirely the point of “Get Fast,” a dumber-than-dumb action pic that sets out to prove how much movie you can make with pretty much no script at all. Catch-phrases and stock characters, a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Elliot Page stars in a Transgender Homecoming — “Close to You”

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Canadian drama “Close to You” is a quiet, contemplative and yet deflatingly unsurprising homecoming story about an unhappy, maladjusted daughter who returns to his former home and former life after gender reassignment treatment. It stars the transgender actor Elliot … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Aging and about to be unemployed, Pamela Anderson is “The Last Showgirl”

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Gia Coppola directed, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis co-star. This “final performance” Vegas showgirl tale has vulnerability and a little cachet, with Anderson back from the dead and a decent supporting cast. This … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Zambian family ponders life and death and old secrets — “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Rungano Nyoni took a top prize for this quirky drama that immerses us in a Zambian family, it’s secrets and suspicions and superstitions and funeral rituals. Mar. 7, from A24.

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