Monthly Archives: November 2024

Classic Film Review: Looking for Lean Laughs from “Blithe Spirit” (1945)

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

The shifting sands of editor-turned-director David Lean‘s career took him through early adaptations of Noël Coward scripts, included some definitive adaptations of Charles Dickens and eventually settled on the sweeping epics which is he best known for today — “Bridge … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Why make a “live” (CGI) action “Lilo & Stitch?”

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Back in olden times, Disney would re-release its animated classics — in theaters, in new video and digital formats — every few years so that new generations of children could discover as parents who grew up on the films introduced … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Hardnosed Brazilian History Lesson about Surviving Fascism — “I’m Still Here”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

As America abandons the rule of law, the Constitution and common sense in the thrall of a fascist traitor and his Moscow and mob-allied lackeys, the great Walter Salles has just the film to warn the rest of us of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Long live “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

The grand old man of “Wallace” voicing fame, and British TV, before he became a voice-acting icon — Peter Sallis — passed away in 2017 just a few years shy of reaching 100. The Wallace & Gromit filmmakers decided against … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? British doctors invent IVF, facing protests and attacks as they do — “Joy: The Birth of IVF”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Well-cast, well-acted, sentimental and plucky, “Joy: The Birth of IVF” is an encouragingly upbeat account of the labors, trials and attacks endured by the intrepid British team that set out to find “a cure for childlessness.” It’s a story of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pixar’s “Elio” just wants “to be abducted by aliens”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Hard to get much of a take on what this outer space kids’ adventure will offer. Looks cute. The name choice seems odd, “Elon” odd. But who knows where writer and co-director Adrian Molina’s head was when he was scripting … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock’s first take on the dainty and deadly “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1934)

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

The earliest signs that the filmmaker would one day to be branded as “The Master of Suspense” in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.” But it took the advent of sound, and several … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Denzel’s sons open up August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

Denzel Washington furthers his efforts to keep his promise to “do right by” the late, playwright August Wilson by producing another film of one of Wilson’s plays, this one he assigned to his sons, actor John David Washington to star … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ving Rhames is the trainer who can teach aspiring boxer Luiii the “Uppercut”

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

Jordan E. Cooper and Joanna Cassidy are also in the cast of this “Girlfight/Million Dollar Baby” drama. But who exactly is this Luiii? The first person I can find on the interwebs with that one word name is a singer … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? French Biker (OK, Scooter) Gang Goes for the Gold…and diamonds — “GTMax”

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

“GTMax” is a French thriller about armed robberies pulled off with the aid of souped-up scooters. No, not Vespas. But modified small-wheel street commuters turned into “battle tanks.” So the promise of the premise is the sight of superscooters and … Continue reading →

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