Daily Archives: March 9, 2025

Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “A Nice Indian Boy” just wants to meet another “Nice Indian Boy”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mindy Kaling produced this April 4 (Wayfarer) release about a gay Indian doctor who meets his dreamboat — a white man adopted by Indian parents. This is a culture clash comedy STUFFED with POSSIBILITIES — Indian diaspora attitudes towards homosexuality, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Inner Life and Trials of a mild-mannered Librarian — “Darkest Miriam”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Britt Lower stars in this account of the loneliness of a profession which entails a lot more than just books. Any public librarian in any town or city of any size deals with the cranky, loud elderly, unruly youth, the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Crispin Glover takes on a Lon Chaney silent classic — “A Blind Bargain”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Paul Bunnell directed and co-wrote this “reimagining” of a horror silent film from 1922, starring Lon Chaney then, Crispin Glover today. It was about a doctor who experiments on a man in exchange for giving medical care to the “subject’s” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Keaton, Lulu and Hodge taste the benefits of “Arthur’s Whisky”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Of all the “Mad Money,” “Poms” and “Book Club” trifles that Oscar winner Diane Keaton has made since stardom faded, “Arthur’s Whisky” might be the most trifling. But this British nothing of a “fountain of youth” comedy manages to go … Continue reading →

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