Monthly Archives: March 2025

Movie Preview: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in Celine Song’s rom (com?), “Materialists”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Matchmaker Dakota J’s a “Sex and the City” style good-looking-rich-guys-“unicorn” hunter with her head turned by wealthy Pedro P and her heart touched by hunky waiter Chris E. Madonna’s “Material Girl” era lives on. Marin Ireland and Sawyer Spielberg are … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Dash of Nostalgia and Sentiment, and a Make-Work project for all the Sandlers Poppa Bear Adam wants to put in the movies — “Happy Gilmore 2”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

We see Stiller and (ugh) Nick Swardson, Margaret Qualley and Sandler spawn and Sandler hangers’on and a lot of pro golfers in this trailer to a sequel to one of Adam Sandler’s most popular comedies ever. Good thing they brought … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Surviving “Last Tango,” “Being Maria”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

The scene, like the movie it dominates, was infamous before anybody outside of the production had seen it. The movie was stilted, strange, shocking and controversial, even in the hypersexualized “art cinema” of the ’70s. And the title, “Last Tango … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Paul Walter Hauser is gaming a game show — “The Luckiest Man in America”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

A 1984 scandal that not many remember is the subject of this thriller featuring Walton Goggins, Haley Bennett, David Strathairn, Shamier Anderson and Johnny Knoxville. Paul Walter Hauser is pretty damned good at suggesting “sketchy,” I must say. Even if … Continue reading →

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It’s Saint Patrick’s Day — Watch “The Quiet Man,” listen to “diddley aye music,” and plot your Pilgrimage to Eire

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

That’s the drill every March 17, isn’t it? Listen to a spot of this. Watch an Irish film or two. “The Late Rite,” I’d suggest. Or Roddy Doyle’s “The Snapper,” “The Van” or “The Commitments,” maybe Gabriel Byrne’s “Into the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin and Kurt Russell, 1930s Ex-Cons on a “Fools’ Parade” (1971)

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s easy to dismiss the picaresque action comedy “Fool’s Parade” as an “old man movie,” because that was kind of the idea back when it was made. James Stewart was 63 in 1971, when it came out, with a bunch … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Millie Bobby meets The Russo Brothers — “The Electric State”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

If it takes the bottomless checkbook of Netflix to finally make the fangirls and fanboys recognize what merde merchants the filmmaking Russo brothers are, so be it. Famed for making the expensive trains run on time in effects heavy Marvel … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Noisy Zombies spoil the Peace and Quiet of “Silent Zone”

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was a time when zombies were slow and the movies about them were quick. The walking dead would lurch into sight and characters would have to go out of their way to trip or somehow be trapped by the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cast and Crew kid themselves into thinking “Raging Midlife” is funny

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

You crowd source your funding to get your idea for a comedy about wrestling, obsessive fans and the midlife crisis none of us want to face filmed. You talk Paula Adbul, Eddie Griffin and “Star Trek” alumnus Walter Koenig in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Steve Buscemi’s a serial killer offering “Psycho Therapy” to a writer and his wife

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Britt Lower and John Magaro star in this comic thriller about a writer offered the chance to be “advised” by a “retired” serial killer for his next book. Buscemi’s that retiree, and when cornered, he can pass for a marriage … Continue reading →

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