Monthly Archives: February 2025

Classic Film Review: Jeremy Irons leads a Polish Home Renovation in 1980s London — “Moonlighting” (1982)

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A cut-rate Polish work crew slips into wintry 1981 London to do an off-the-books home renovation in “Moonlighting,” Jerzy Skolimowski’s droll and intimate comment on capitalism, the collapse of communism and the horrors of cut-rate home repair. It’s one of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Boy Band Pretty or “Faceless (Shoutai)” he’s too cute to be a mass murderer!

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Faceless” is “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” or just “The Fugitive” for Japan’s current “Seijin no Hi” generation. The conceit is so clever that the clock is probably already ticking on a Hollywood version of this. A … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The terror and heartbreak of life under a dictatorship — the Oscar-contending “I’m Still Here”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

A mother and father contemplate sending their oldest daughter to London to study. It’s 1970 and the family lives in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has been under a military dictatorship for years. the daughter is college age, rebellious, and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Thirty scintillating seconds of Pitt, Bardem and Condon — “F1”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

June 25.

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Movie Review: There’s no feud like an Irish feud over land, fermented guilt and sheep — “Bring Them Down”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not going to sugar-coat this. “Bring Them Down” is rough, a movie of wrenching, insensate cruelty, much of it directed at animals. Writer-director Chris Andrews has made a debut feature that is as hard to watch as any recent film, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bowen Yang & Co. remake “The Wedding Banquet”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Asian Americans gays cook up work arounds for their “traditional” relatives who don’t understand their sexuality, going so far as to fake relationships and a marriage. Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” rode the crest of a wave of what we’d … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Elder Statesmen of Metal recall “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Truncated, authorized and sanitized for your protection, “Becoming Led Zeppelin” offers the tamest take you’ll ever see on the hedonistic heavy metal band that started it all. Director Bernard MacMahon agreed to limit himself to what plays as three grandfatherly … Continue reading →

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Let’s skip “The Big Game” and Get the “Led” Out — “Becoming Led Zeppelin” doc time

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

In IMAX, metalheads! Super Bowl Shmoopper Bowl. What’s the over/under on concussions and CTE risk? “Been a long lonely lonely lonely time” I say. (Updated, my review is here.)

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Movie Preview: Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils”

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s good to see one of Canada’s last auteurs still taking his shots, and Seyfried getting another shot at challenging material. Can’t remember the last Egoyan film that I thought worked, and this one wound up with Distributor of Last … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jonathan Majors has “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

An obsessed body builder will do most anything to his physique to become famous, a winner on the cover of magazines. Majors lays it all out there in what could be his comeback from de facto banishment/cancellation based on legal … Continue reading →

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