Daily Archives: April 29, 2025

Movie Preview: “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” see me get old

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody, Dave Franco et al welcoming Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe and Rosamund Pike for this sequel to the 2013 sleeper hit, due out in Nov. Justice Smith is in it, if that seals the deal for you.

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Movie Preview: Dwayne Johnson wears prosthetics as UFC’s “The Smashing Machine”

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

I know it’s an A24 release rolling out Oct. 3, on the cusp of “awards season.” But how does Emily Blunt agree to co-star — again — with Dwayne “The Human Hemorhoid” Johnson without Disney money? An early UFC history … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading →

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