Monthly Archives: January 2025

Movie Preview: DeNiro sits down with DeNiro, two mobsters, “The Alto Knights”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Bobby D. as Vito Genovese? And Frank Costello? In the same film? Bada BING. Debra Messing, Michael Rispoli and Cosmo Jarvis are in this Barry Levinson film, scripted by the veteran NYC crime reporter turned screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, who scripted … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What terror awaits from “The Woman in the Yard?”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

The milieu is what’s most novel about this March 28 Blumhouse horror release. Rural, Southern, African American terror remembered in a child’s cryptic rhyme. The trailer is cut in ways sure to raise a hair or two on the back … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Teen Temptress, Femme Fatale, or Victim? “Nahir”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nahir,” a brooding, glamourized and sexed-up account of a notorious Argentine murder case, is a mystery thriller that aims for engrossing and immersive that never falls short of quite watchable along the way. Screenwriter Sofia Wilhelmi and director Hernán Gu … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Accept no Substititute for this Suspsense Masterpiece — “The Wages of Fear” (1953)

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

Stanley Kubrick was among the most famous filmmakers to assert that if you can’t tell what’s happening in a film — the emotions and motivations of the characters and the point of it all — with the sound turned off, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wild West Dinklage chases Juliette Lewis into “The Thicket”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Thicket” is a Western built on archetyepal characters pursuing one another through a forbidding and unforgiving archetypal Western landscape. It’s a wintry fin de siècle “manhunt” for a young woman, and another woman gang-leader named Cut Throat Bill who … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “Cupid Killer” thriller for Valentine’s Day — “Heart Eyes”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Producers associated with the “Scream” franchise are behind this surviving Valentine’s Day/surviving a serial killer thriller. Jordana Brewster stars. Olivia Holt is another “name” in it. Devon Sawa and Mason Gooding also star. Those “producers,” the screenwriters and actor turned … Continue reading →

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A Snow Day is always a movie day, but not to a Cocker Spaniel

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Cocker never forgets her first snowfall. “Tell me more about this ‘Iditarod’ of your Alaska days, Dad. Where do I sign up?”

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Netflixable? WWII Underground Agent “Number 24 (Nr. 24)” tells kids what’s called for when you Fight Fascism

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the smartest places Netflix has put its international production money is Scandivanian World War II films. A collection of true or “inspired by” true stories have shown us forgotten heroics, sacrifice, treachery and air raids that went wrong. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make Yourself Famous, try to be a “Better Man” and not a Pop Star Cliché

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever he means to other parts of the world — his UK homeland in particular — the pop star Robbie Williams falls somewhere on the “Remember him?” to “Who?” sliding scale here in the U.S. So maybe the idea of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: More heists, more Butler and Jackson — “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera”

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

One hesitates to ever use the phrase “lazy” in describing the epic enterprise that is the making of any major motion picture. But the temptation is there in describing writer-director Christian Gudegast’s reunion with Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. … Continue reading →

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