Daily Archives: February 20, 2025

Movie Preview: Pedro Pascal in an Action Comedy Anthology — “Freaky Tales”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ben Mendelson, Normani and Jay Ellis also star in this collection of dark and darkly-funny crime stories set in ’87 Oakland. Tom Hanks plays a video store owner in this April 4 Lionsgate release.

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Movie (Documentary?) Preview: “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

This looks sweet, a couple of old stoners mending fences and having the last laugh. It smokes out April 25 (April 30 “previews”), and is basically self-distributed. So maybe it’ll be in a theater near you. Man.

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Movie Review: A Master Mocks Yakuza Hit-Man Movies — “Broken Rage”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Leave it to Beat Takeshi to ridicule the cinematic elephantiasis that has even the Great Scorsese pushing the limits of how long a night out at the movies should last. And that Brady Corbet “Brutalist” guy? Three and a half … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hemmings and Redgrave, The Yardbirds and 1960s London — Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

A young photographer is shaken to his core when he finally sees the beyond the Mod London surface gloss he so ably captures in “Blow-Up,” a vivid snapshot of a moment in time and a patient, chilling thriller about a … Continue reading →

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