Monthly Archives: December 2024

Movie Review: French couple constrained by the limits of “Just the Two of Us”

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Just the Two of Us” is a textbook domestic abuse melodrama, a French film with just enough mystery about it to make us wonder if it will transform into a thriller. Based on a novel by Éric Reinhardt, Valérie Donzelli’s … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: A longer (full trailer) look at “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s been a long lonely lonely lonely time. But that ends this Feb. “Authorized” and sanitized? Sure. Still looks fun.

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Movie Review: Jackie Chan, in the silly present, in the fantastical past “A Legend”

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Let the record reflect that Jackie Chan is more limber, nimble and in better faux fighting trim at 70 than you are at 60, 35 or 20, “Boomer,” “Xer,” Millennial or what have you. Hong Kong’s king of martial arts … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Donnie Yen’s a two-fisted cop who kicks more ass as “The Prosecutor”

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Love that Donnie Yen. Jan. 10.

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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” goes “BOOM,” “Mufasa” is NO “Lion King”

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

Adding Keanu Reeves to the (voice) cast of the “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise pays off with a franchise-best opening weekend for “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.” The franchise-best was the first film, which opened at over $72 million. The third fiilm … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Black Women serve in WWII — “The Six Triple Eight”

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

The only all-Black Women’s Army Corps united to serve in World War II n Europe is fondly remembered in Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight,” a polished, sentimental and old fashioned picture that points out to the culture at large … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A romance directed by Julia Stiles — “Wish You Were Here”

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

Hollywood has had its share of troubles making touching romances in recent years. But if you want somebody who knows the genre and has been in memorable movie romances, you could do a lot worse than giving Julia Stiles (“Ten … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: James Gunn pulls out all the sentimental stops for his “Superman” teaser

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

Lex and Lois and Clark and a caped critter who barks. Echoes of John Williams, a few names in the cast Brosnahan, Hoult, Gunn’s brother, a mwmber of the Reeve family and Wendell Pierce is “newspaper” editor Perry White. Pushes … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Investigator meets a Murder Suspect and imagines herself “In Her Place (El lugar de la otra)”

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

The lone woman on a team investigating an instantly-notorious and very public murder finds herself understanding and even envying the murderess in “In Her Place,” a thriller with a message about the lot of women in 1950s South America, and … Continue reading →

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