Monthly Archives: December 2024

Movie Preview: Iraq Combat at its most intense, in a film by a combat vet and the director of “Civil War” — “Warfare”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

This 2025 “real time” thriller takes us into Iraqi combat “as remembered” by writer and co-star Ray Mendoza. Does it look more intense than the many Iraq War grunts-eye-view thrillers that preceded it, or even appreciable different from “American Sniper,” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Megan Fox, robotic in her “Subservience”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Saying Megan Fox is well cast as a robotic household “helper” in “Subservience” seems kind of mean. And one really should avoid using the phrase “human sex doll” in describing her role here, or her screen career in general. “Subservience” … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Phil Collins, a pop star in winter, “Drummer First”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

OK, not your normal platform — Drumeo, a drum-centric site selling lessons, etc. is offering this. Not sure why that is (probably not a feature length doc). But in the ’80s and ’90s, Collins was as omnipresent as any balding … Continue reading →

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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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