Monthly Archives: March 2025

So “Anora” was the Best the Movies had to Show us Last Year?

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sure. Right. Yeah. But come on. A tale of Russian oligarchs and a first-gen immigrant sex worker’s tangle with them — the exploited and the exploiters switching roles, if only briefly — is a movie of the moment, of this … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hackman’s a Working Class CIA Joe taking care of “Company Business”

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not every actor’s all that picky about her or his wardrobe. But the great ones are. Glenn Ford didn’t find a character until he picked out just the right hat. Piper Laurie would fuss over what purse somebody she was … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Mexican Commandos fend of the “Dogs” of a Cartel — “Counterattack (Counterstrike, Contraataque)”

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

An elite Mexican commando unit battling cartels and corruption must shoot and fight its way north — to safety in Brownsville — in the chest-thumping shoot-em-up “Counterattack.” Nothing is made of that irony, and that’s just one of many loose … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ron Howard takes Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, Jude Law, Daniel Bruehl and Vanessa Kirby to “Eden”

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Galapagos Islands, 1934, Germans get away to “Eden.” Things don’t work out the way they’d hoped. This parable of human nature and class and the venality of man opens April 3.

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Movie Preview: Waiting for “The Surfer” to snap — Because he’s Nicolas Freakin’ Cage

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Payback’s a Bitch, Down Under. And it comes courtesy of an Academy Award Winner. May 2.

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Movie Review: DIY Cinema at its Indian Best — “Superboys of Malegaon”

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

A plucky crew of India’s working poor, tired of being busted for pirating movies, set out to make their own in the amusing and engaging true-story dramedy “Superboys of Malegaon.” They’re do-it-yourselfers of the most adorable variety, turning a bicycle … Continue reading →

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