Monthly Archives: April 2025

Movie Preview: Blair Witch Myth Marketing Lives! “Weapons”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

This August release is mainly interesting because of the way the “Maybrook Missing” children, who (in the film) dashed out of their homes and into the night at 2:17 pm, is being shallow faked into “reality.” It’s an August 8 … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Melodrama polished to a fine sheen, “Bonjour Tristesse”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

The serene overheated-via-slow-simmer melodrama “Bonjour Tristesse” leaves its 1950s origins behind in a shimmering new screen adaptation by first-time writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Based on the most famous work of French college girl novelist Françoise Sagan, this tale of privilege, petulant … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Julianne Moore has Milly Alcock, but not sister Meghann Fahy, as one of her “Sirens”

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A huge estate on a posh island, lots of “followers” who live at the beck and call of a mysterious beauty only her closest associates call “Kiki,” a sister in search of a sibling who “wasn’t there” for their father’s … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Elba and Cena, Idris and John are action hero “Heads of State”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

This looks almost theatrical, like say Nettlix’s “Bullet Train” and a few other titles of late. But Amazon’s feeding us Idris Elba and John Cena as a prime minister and a movie star president who have to get physical, with … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Affleck and Bernthal BOTH do the math in “The Accountant 2”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s too long and entirely too damned glib about the ultraviolent mayhem it unleashes on the just and the unjust. The plot is intentionally convoluted, with “hero” assassins and a disapproving Fed out to save a lady assassin from the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: It’s game-over if you can’t make it “Until Dawn”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You could probably tell in a couple of minutes that this weekend’s cinematic sacrificial lamb to the horror gods is based on a video game without being reminded that “Until Dawn” was born on Playstation in the opening credits. Stock … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Chinese history via the Cinema of Jia Zang-ke — “Caught by the Tides”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Twenty three years of films from the director of “Ash Is Purest White” and “Still Life” are sampled and re cut to make this epic of modern China. Many of the folks star Jia Zang-ke’s wife,  Tao Zhang. May 9.

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Silencing the cell, it’s “Accountant 2” time

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Curious to see how they explain Affleck’s accent in this sequel.

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Movie Review: A Gay Fantasia about Honest Abe’s Same Sex Romance — “Lavender Men”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Lavender Men” is an ambitious but meandering and indulgent indie film failure. It’s not the subject matter that does it in, as it’s another film (“Lover of Men”) and play (“Oh, Mary!”) that dives into the notion that Abraham Lincoln … Continue reading →

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