Monthly Archives: March 2025

Movie Review: R. Patts is Labor at its Most Disposable — “Mickey 17”

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film is an arch sci-fi parable about the troubled world we live in. An Earth-born colonist/laborer on the distant planet Nilfheim has been recruited by a charismatic but dimwitted poseur/ex-senator/cult-leader whose “propogate the species” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: When Ireland isn’t Enough, “The Problem with People”

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

A couple of top flight character actors — Irish mainstay Colm Meaney and American kvetcher Paul Reiser — pair up for an Irish comedy about family history, inheritance, grudges and cultures clashing in “The Problem with People.” It’s got the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Still a hoot — Mssr. Belmondo’s Holiday — “That Man from Rio (L’homme de Rio)” (1964)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adrien, dashing from 1960s Rio de Janiero to Brasilia, the then new capital of Brazil, in a pink 1929 Chrysler 75 adored with green stars, pulls over at the first modernist police station he spies. He steps out of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pop Starlet Samara just keeps pushing Nutty Fan’s “love” over the “Borderline”

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Samara Weaving is a Madonna-esque pop superstar stalked by Ray Nicholson in his father Jack’s full “Here’s JOHNNY!” nutjob mode in “Borderline,” a violent and crazed comedy about celebrity and the delusions it feeds to those who have it and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Natalie Dormer crusades for Help for Kids with Cancer, and their Families — “Audrey’s Children”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dormer is Dr. Audrey Evans, who attacked childhood cancer in conventional and unventional ways, including pioneering opening the first Ronald McDonald’s House in 1969. Clancy Brown’s the veteran doctor trying to rein her in, with Brandon Michael Hall and Jimmi … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Dead Kevin Bacon’s “The Bondsman,” because you don’t skip bail on “The Devil”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Bacon gets to play a little music, drive a ’70 Chevelle and corral or kill demons on behalf of Old Scratch. Jolene Purdy, Damon Harriman and Beth Grant also star in this eight episode series, which may have enough ideas … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Pierce Brosnan, Dame Helen and Tom Hardy dive into Guy RitchieWorld — “MOBLAND”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

A “Downton Abbey” alumna pops up in this trailer, too. See if you spot her. Is this a “spinoff from ‘Ray Donovan?’” Never watched that. “MOBLAND”– Paramount/Ritchie INSIST on ALL CAPS for the title — premieres on Paramount + March … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Norwegian remake follows a drunken, aimless skier on “The Wrong Track”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the more disillusioning aspects of the Golden Age of Content is the way Netflix repurposes intellectual property and remakes films for different markets. Spanish films get almost pointless Mexican or Argentine remakes, and vice versa. And it all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dito Montiel rounds up Murray, Coolidge, Davidson, Union and Ed Harris as “Riff Raff”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

The trailers hint that there might be laughs, that the tone of “Riff Raff” — a dark and bloody comedy about hit men, family, and how those two only exist together in the movies — could very well come off. … Continue reading →

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Who isn’t happy Zoe Saldaña won an Oscar?

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not the fangirls and fanboys who grew up watching her embellish or flat out carry her share of sci-fi franchises — “Star Trek,” “Avatar” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” among them. Not pre-“fanboy” fans who realized what she brought to … Continue reading →

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