Monthly Archives: February 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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Movie Review: An Oscar-nominated animated “Incredible Journey” from Latvia — “Flow”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Flow” is a futuristic Franco-Latvian fantasy, an animated sci-fi version of Disney’s classic animal odyssey, “The Incredible Journey.” Gints Zilbalodis’ film, an Oscar nominee as Best Animated Feature and as Best International Feature, is a dialogue-free travelogue that follows a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Home Invaders show up with an Agenda — “Everyone Is Going to Die”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Everyone is Going to Die” is a generic home invasion thriller that clumsily struggles with the #MeToo “message” grafted onto it. It opens with the usual “Funny Games/’The ‘Strangers’ franchise” franchise attack, serves up hints that this assault isn’t as … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: High End Horror ensues, because He’s Going to “Bring Her Back”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director Philippou brothers behind “The Babadook” and “Talk to Me” landed Sally Hawkins for the lead in this chiller. A24 has it, and that’s almost all we need to know, right? May 30.

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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs. Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Sexually-attracted StepSiblings in a Rich New Setting — “My Fault: London”

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Argentine-born Sevillian novelist Mercedes Ron has made a pretty good living off her rich-stepsiblings-incest intellectual property, the “Culpables Trilogy” — “Culpa Mia,” “Culpa Tuya” and “Culpa Nuestra,” which translates as “My Fault,” “Your Fault” and “Our Fault.” Being young and … Continue reading →

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