Monthly Archives: March 2025

Classic Film Review: Kingsley, Mirren and Dance scheme their way across “Pascali’s Island” (1988)

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

The decade after Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for his performance in the title role “Gandhi” was one of the most interesting of his storied, four-Oscar nomination career. He’d been a respected but mostly unknown player on Brit TV for … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “2 Lives in Pittsburgh,” a tale of “coming out”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Earnest and well-intentioned, Brian Silverman‘s “2 Lives in Pittsburgh” begins with confusion that turns towards compassion before drifting into cloying and finishing up with a hearty “Oh COME on.” Writer, director and co-star Silverman stuffs wrinkles, revelations and pointless complications … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Fatal Finnish Funny Business comes to “Little Siberia”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A village pastor finds himself guarding a possibly valuable meteorite, fighting off those who covet it and questioning his faith and his wife — who is pregnant with a baby he’s sure isn’t his — in the dark and daft … Continue reading →

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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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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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Movie Preview: Bang and Sevigny, Lily McInerny and Sailing off the South of France: “Bonjour Tristesse”

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

A 1954 romance by Françoise Sagan is what inspired actress and sometime producer Durga Chew-Bose to become a first time writer-director. Otto Preminger made a film out of “Hello Sadness” (the title’s translation) in the ’50s, with Jean Seberg, Deborah … Continue reading →

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