Monthly Archives: December 2024

Movie Preview: Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow, “The Rule of Jenny Pen”

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

A nursing home thriller involving an aged psychopath and puppets, and an aged judge out to stop him. I thought Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush was canceled? No? Never mind.

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Movie Preview: Alan Cumming goes Canadian — “Drive Back Home”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Is this showing at a cinema near you? I’m hunting high and low for it. Looks adorable, the prodigal/gay son/brother endures the “Drive Back Home.”

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Movie Review: “Moana 2” is nobody’s idea of “an instant classic”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Here’s how I described Disney’s 2016 blockbuster “Moana” when it came out. “It is an instant classic, a near masterpiece and the best Disney animated film since its last Golden Age, which produced “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Remembering an earlier coup attempt, an armed insurrection by “The Order”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s not the cars and the clothes that establish “The Order” as a period piece. It’s the notion of Federal law enforcement aggressively pursuing violent traitors out to overthrow democracy no matter how indifferent the entitled, selective-enforcement rural sheriffs and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Y2K,” back when the end was nigh

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Why “Y2K?” Why now? Seriously, WTF, Gen Y and Kyle Mooney?  Films? LOLs? Not on your life, A24 Films. The ex-“SNL” player Mooney co-wrote, directed and co-stars in “Y2K,” a “horny teenager” comedy that aims to be a sort of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Hungarian doctor discovers the need for antiseptics in the Oscar hopeful “Semmelweis”

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

The medical biopic“Semmelweis“would make a fine double feature paired with the recent Netflix medical history drama “Joy.” Set a century apart, they’re both about a male-dominated medical profession struggling with issues of childbirth. “Joy” is about the long process of … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

The one apparent “drawback,” if one can call it that, to this doc is the “authorized” nature of this doc of a band not without its share of “lore” and controversy. Morgan Neville (“Piece by Piece,” “20 Feet from Stardom,” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Postwar Poor in Italy ship their kids North on “The Children’s Train”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

World War II put lots of children, all over the world, in mortal danger. Those families that could often put them on trains to escape it. From the Kindertransport of Jewish children from Nazi controlled corners of Europe to the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs are tested by life and a long walk along “The Salt Path”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

Hiking, camping, sight-seeing, battered by the elements and homeless in the UK. So…Dorset to Somerset it is. Coming soon, plainly not soon enough for me.

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Movie Review: A Prodigal daughter comes home to find she’s been replaced — “You are Not Me”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Spanish thriller “You Are Not Me” takes its sweet, creepy time getting around to stating the obvious. Set and shot in rural Valencia, it’s about a doctor/daughter who’s come home for the holidays, bringing her wife and Black adopted … Continue reading →

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