Monthly Archives: December 2024

Netflixable? Keira and Ben Whishaw try to survive London’s “Wick World” of “Black Doves”

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

The one hard and fast rule of streaming action series these days is that they have to be page-turners. The plot has to not just lure us in, but repeatedly add wrinkles to drag the viewer into that next episode. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock Close-ups and Cuts at their Most “Notorious”

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

A purloined key, handed-off and hidden, then “returned” with dire consequences, bottles of wine whose “vintage” sticker earns a lot of attention, a party’s champagne bucket, emptying steadily and suspensefully and the look of doom in a great actress’s ready-for-my-closeup … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A second epic trailer for the Awards Bait Epic, “The Brutalist”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

A vehicle worthy of Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce? Architecture and immigrants, America remade via one by the imagination of the other.

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Movie Review: Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig bring Burroughs’ “Queer” to the screen

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

There have been worthy big screen interpretations of the Beat Generation icon William S. Burroughs over the years. Kieffer Sutherland played him in “Beat.” Peter Weller took on Burroughs’ alter ego (and pen name) “Bill Lee” in David Cronenberg’s celebrated … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Irish Hitman tries to retire in 1990s NYC — “The Mick and the Trick”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

The accents are cartoonish, the performances broad, the situations silly and the blood and bullets are everywhere in “The Mick and the Trick,” a lunkheaded action comedy about a hitman’s “retirement plan.” Actor turned writer-director Tom DeNucci doesn’t shake his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Baldwin, Terrence Howard and Esai Morales are trapped in the quagmire of “Crescent City”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

A suspect is getting grilled by three cops, played by movie stars. At one point, the biggest star of them all, Alec Baldwin, blurts out “Need I remind you you’re under OATH?” No, the director didn’t shout “Cut!” No, the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Murderous thieves hunt “pedos” — “Filthy Animals”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

There may be a point to James T. North’s “Filthy Animals,” a tale of pedophile-hunting vigilantism and exploited employee revenge in the San Pedro, Lomita corner of Greater Los Angeles. If there is, North makes it ham-fistedly and in an … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Clumsy Whodunit within a Whodunit stuck in a “Glass Casa”

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

A killer “Glass House” location and pretty much nothing else recommend “Glass Casa.” It’s a comic thriller whose clumsy structure, limp performances and forgettable dialogue do nothing to separate it from the pack of similar movies that trap a bunch … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Woody Harrelson’s determined to save a fellow diver, struggling for his “Last Breath”

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

“I’m NOT losing a diver today!” Cliff Curtis and Simu Liu also star in this storm-tossed research ship thriller from Alex Parkinson. It’s already opened in the UK, but comes to North American on Feb. 28.

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Documentary Preview: A Peek into the Man behind the other “Bond” — “From Roger Moore, with Love”

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

Some good “gets” for interview subjects in this documentary portrait of the long-serving James Bond, once and always “Saint,” Roger Moore. Pierce Brosnan, Joan Collins, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, David Walliams and Dick Cavett. No Michael Caine? Pity. They were … Continue reading →

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