Monthly Archives: December 2024

Movie Preview: Woodward, Coskas and Voight, heroes and villains reincarnated through time — “Man With No Past”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Adam Woodward’s the little-known British lead in this thriller, about deja vu dealings with the monsters you’ve been confronting in life after life through the past — Romans to Nazis to modern day MAGA Jon Voight. On the nose casting, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ski Country Schemes –Art Theft, Cheating, and Murder — “Black Diamond”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

A young, good looking but unknown cast — Inbar Lavi, Jake McLaughlin and Ray Panthaki among the ranks — hedge fund bros and a Miro’ painting figure in this Jan 10 thriller from Judd Bloch.

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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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Movie Review: Once more to Middle Earth, before “The Lord of the Rings,” “The War of the Rohirrim”

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” is a dull placeholder pic rolled out by Warner Animation to keep the company’s intellectual property rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth current in the public’s mind. Streaming series aside, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A comedy about an attempted insurance claim killing — “Trigger Happy”

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

Not a name in the cast — Elsha Kim, Tyler Poelle, Zak Steiner et al. But the tone seems…relatable. Jan. 14.

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Movie Review: Krap on a kracker? “Kraven the Hunter”

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

Aaron Taylor-Johnson gets gym-jacked one more time, Russell Crowe auditions for a future Ernest Hemingway at his burliest bio-pic and Alessadro Nivolla trots out the silliest supervillain voice since John Malkovich in “Rounders” for “Kraven the Hunter,” a misguided mess … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A TSA agent is blackmailed into letting somebody’s “Carry-On” slide by

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

The “talking villain” is played by Jason Bateman. So as you might guess, he damned near talks us all to death. The scenario is within the realm of possibilities, but juiced and dragged-out with so many eye-rolling “Hollywood” twists that … Continue reading →

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