Daily Archives: March 22, 2025

Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pedro Pascal, Elizabeth Reaser, Rufus Sewell and a different side of Walton Goggins face “The Uninvited”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

A cocktail party is the setting for this actors’ showcase, featuring 151-credits-and-counting screen veteran Lois Smith as an elderly intruder at a posh and “very important” social/business gathering. Goggins and Reaser play husband and wife, Pascal the resented/envied “guest” and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What do we make of Alison Brie and Dave Franco “Together” in, um, canine form?

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brie and Franco, married in real life, play a couple drifting apart until something rural and supernatural intervenes. August 1, this romantically werewolfy horror comedy comes out.

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” opens big(ish), but underwhelms, “Alto Knights” Bomb

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Is the fact that they cast a Latina actress, Rachel Zegler, as “Snow White” scaring off racist parents? Does knowing Disney chose to CGI its way around casting actual dwarf actors — there are many, and Peter Dinklage is merely … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Snow White” and her Singing CGI Pals Don’t Get the Job Done

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s nothing inherently wrong with Disney’s recent practice of remaking its animated musical classics as live action films. Reviving a timeless story for a new generation and getting more value out of a long-treasured piece of intellectual property is to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: De Niro vs. De Niro in Levinson’s “The Alto Knights”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

For his latest feat, Oscar winning screen legend Robert De Niro plays two roles, as rival Mafia leaders Frank Costello and Vito Genovese at the mob’s late 1950s peak. Another word for “feat” might be “stunt” or “gimmick” in the … Continue reading →

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