Monthly Archives: November 2024

Movie Review: Britain’s “Best International Feature” Oscar hope is an Indian Police Procedural — “Santosh”

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

American TV has pretty much beaten to death the police procedural drama thanks to overexposure to the infallible, unimpeachable justice system fantasies of Dick Wolf, the self-righteous heroes of “Blue Bloods” and and the scientist sleuths of “C.S.I.” That’s why … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Oscar contender “Under the Volcano” lets Ukrainians vacation until Russia Invades

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Biden administration had been warning for months that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine. But when it finally happened, Ukrainians, right up to the country’s president, were shocked. Even some of those accepting that it might happen carried on … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” but Hollywood beats him down

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

Real Hollywood folk (Scorsese) mingle with Bryan Cranston, Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara in this send up of the cinema as it exists today.  March 26, Apple TV.

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Movie Review: Coming of Age, “What We Find on the Road”

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

“What We Find on the Road” is a dramatically dull indie roadtrip dramedy that reaches for “coming of age” and strains itself getting there. The film begins with mystery and promise, drifts into predictable and undramatic and doesn’t really rally … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Brave anti-fascist theologian is clumsily remembered in “Bonhoeffer”

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

I highly recommend you pay a quick visit to the Wikipedia page dedicated to German theologian and resistance martyr Dietrch Bonhoeffer before taking on writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s film “Bonhoeffer.” Otherwise, you might be as lost as I was thanks to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Perfect title for a Horror Film? “The Man in the White Van”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

Dec. 13, we figure out if this title tells us everything that we need to know about this one.

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Netflixable? “Hot Frosty” serves up a Snowman Who’s “Cut”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

When it comes to holiday films, American tastes long ago moved into HallmarkLand. Christmas princes, princesses, holiday get-aways that turn into second chance romances, holiday movies these days are all about Dolly Parton, Nicolas Sparks and sentiments — and plots … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Sex Worker “Anora” marries her “Whale”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

Full disclosure, I ducked into “Anora” a couple of times, waiting for other movies to start, before finally setting aside the time to watch Sean Baker’s latest, start to finish. The tale of an American sex worker of Eastern European … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mismatched Cousins Find their Pilgrimage to the Motherland “A Real Pain”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s true that the funniest bits in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” turn up in the movie’s trailers. A lot of over-reactions and under-reactions, infectiously exhuberant changes of mood that can be exhaustingly manic, a big personality overhwelming a reserved … Continue reading →

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