Daily Archives: December 15, 2024

Documentary Preview: You remember Led Zeppelin, but “Dread Zeppelin: A Song of Hope?”

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

Tortelvis leading a reggae Led Zep “cover band.” Good musicians. Good comedians. You hear’em, you can’t UNhear their way with a classic rock tune. You see’em, you never forget’em. I interviewed Tortelvis once upon a time. If Led Zepellin has … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Spanish feminist fights sexism and fascism — “The Red Virgin (La virgen roja)”

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

Groomed for greatness, a writing, philosophizing prodigy by her teens and a young woman nearly 100 years ahead of her time, Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was long a forgotten heroine of the Spanish Civil War. That’s how “history” is erased by … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen in a “Cleaner” movie whose title doesn’t mean what you think

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

I take it Daisy R. is a high rise window cleaner with “special skills?” This isn’t “Cleaner” as used in a hit man sense? A “cleaner” who delivers a “Die Hard” response to invading robbers/terrorists? Quiver has this one, co-starring … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Reckless Pilot Peck makes a WWII Trek across “The Purple Plain” (1954)

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

By the time he made “The Purple Plain,” Gregory Peck had already made a film that touched on the fear and emotional toll of air combat in World War II — 1949’s “Twelve O’Clock High.” But the text of that … Continue reading →

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