Monthly Archives: December 2024

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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Movie Review: Palestine’s hope for Oscar recognition? “From Ground Zero” takes us inside Gaza

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

When tragedy hits artists, artists create. So when the civilians of Gaza were consumed by the conflict that ignited between Hamas and Israel, Palestinian artists — documentarians and diarists, influencers and animators — set out to describe their experience on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Boxer readies Body and Soul for the “Day of the Fight”

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Day of the Fight” is a sentimental and soulful “fight picture,” a movie that follows a former champ through every bit of personal business he feels he has to take care of before his “comeback” that night. The actor-turned-director Jack … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Bronson Brawls and an action auteur is born — Walter Hill’s “Hard Times” (1975)

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s a gentility about “Hard Times,” a bare-knuckle brawling drama set during the Great Depression. It’s a genre piece populated with veteran character actors playing archetypes bound by their own code, playing their parts in a story so pre-ordained that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Struggling Siblings reconnect, or try to — “Scrap”

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Thirtyish Beth smiles and gives her five-year-old daughter a squeeze. “Gremlin, you know I will always take care of you.” As we’ve heard Beth lie like she breathes, we doubt that, even if the little girl she named Barbara but … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Parole violators don’t stand a chance against “Officer Black Belt”

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Absurd on its surface and dark hearted to say the least, “Officer Black Belt” is a violent thriller that flirts with being a Korean action comedy. If you can get by the murderers, rapists and many child molesters brought to … Continue reading →

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