Monthly Archives: April 2025

Movie Review: An all-star Animated tale of “The King of Kings,” as told by Charles Dickens

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The King of Kings” is a compact, cute Life of Jesus served up in animated form for parents to take their kids to this Easter. An all-star voice cast decorates a beautifully animated offering from Angel Studios, produced as the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Ferrer, Huston and the Can Can — “Moulin Rouge” (1952)

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

The American master John Huston was an Oscar winning director and screenwriter, and no slouch as an actor. A bon vivant, boxer, horseman and at his richest, a member of the Irish landed gentry, he became Hollywood’s most famous Renaissance … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Mobsters meet Japanese Puppeteers — Tim Roth, Takehiro Hira, Jack Lowden and Kôki star in “Tornado”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

You had me at…puppeteers? Director John Maclean did “Slow West,” and used to play in a couple of pop bands. We’ll see what we see that comes out of all this and that May 25.

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Movie Review: Payback’s a B–ch in “Revolver”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Revolver” is a Korean “Payback,” another version of the and the Lee Marvin/John Boorman thriller that’s based on, “Point Blank.” Somebody went to jail, did the time. They get out. They’re owed money. They’re damned sure going to collect it. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Scarjo & Benicio, Cumberbatch & Cranston, Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenican Scheme”

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

You can tell it’s an Anderson picture within five seconds. The kitschy production design and graphics, the voice over, the Michael Cera/Jeffrey Wright/Rupert-Riz riffs? May 30. Expect to be tickled to death by a tale of oligarchs and terrorists and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Portman and Krasinski, Gleeson and Tucci seek Guy Ritchie’s “Fountain of Youth”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Seriously? OK. Sure. Note the musical touch, an instrumental of U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” in this trailer. May 25 Apple takes a shot at what looks to be a “National Treasure,” Brendan Fraser “Mummy” kind of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Leslie Nielsen or Liam Neeson, it’s still “The Naked Gun”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s a laugh or two in this trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s reunion with Neeson (“A Million Ways to Die in the West”) for a remake of Leslie Nielsen’s comical triumph. And there’s something fitting in MacFarlane’s “stretch” of putting aged … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? First Love faces the test of “arranged marriage” in “Promised Hearts (Niyala)”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the best reasons to take the occasional Around the world with Netflix trip is getting the pulse of another culture through its cinema. It’s a great way recognize one’s own biases and Western ideas of “cultural progress” and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jeffrey Dean Morgan knows Jack Quaid is the least reliable witness in this “Neighborhood Watch”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

An abduction, a “Screw Loose” nobody takes seriously, except as a suspect. April 25.

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