Monthly Archives: February 2025

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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Movie Review: Dutch Marines spring into action when “Invasion!” comes to The ABC Islands

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

A drowning marine being slapped awake — while 25 or so feet UNDER water — may be the silliest event I’ve ever seen portrayed in a combat film. That’s not enough to ruin the compact Dutch thriller “Invasion!” But it … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: George C. Scott is the “Transporter” in a much older BMW for “The Last Run” (1971)

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Last Run” is a tidy if not exactly tight template for generations of “driver” movies to come. Here is George C. Scott as the original “Transporter,” taking out and thrashing a collectible BMW from Portugal to the Pyrnees all … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Amy Schumer toys with being “Kinda Pregnant”

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It seem unfair that Amy Schumer‘s moment as America’s resident vulgarian and Queen of Crude has passed. We barely remember she was the Oscars hostess the night Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, that “Trainwreck” came out ten years ago and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Love Hurts,” and this review may sting a little, too

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Love Hurts” is the first true star vehicle for former child actor turned Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, who takes his shot at carrying a movie with an action comedy about a mild-mannered realtor who used to be an enforcer … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: V-Day Romance Slathered with Slaughter — “Heart Eyes”

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

A clever-enough conceit, engaging leads and a masked villain of the Jason/Michael Myers/”Scream” variety might be enough to recommend “Heart Eyes,” a “rom com for Valentine’s Day” for the splatter film crowd. Hey, everybody needs a “date movie,” right? It’s … Continue reading →

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