Monthly Archives: May 2025

Movie Preview: Dermot Mulroney’s a crooked senator who finds “Killing Mary Sue” a bit tricky

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sierra McCormick has the title role in this June 13 first-person-shooter action comedy. Note the “Fortnight” reference. Mulroney, French Stewart, Jake Busey, Jason Mewes, Sean Patrick Flanery, veteran heavy Martin Kove and I assume his son Jesse are also in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Darren Aronosky has Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz “Caught Stealing”

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Aged punks, Hassidic gangsters and a clever vanity plate tumble together in this who-stole-what-from-whom action comedy Aronofsky’s not exactly box office, nor are his stars. So that may explain the “dumping ground of August” release date (8-29). They cut a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” or so we presume

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s all just too much, really. The flashbacks within flashbacks, serving up 30 years of “Mission: Impossible’s” Great Hits, dead characters (and deceased actors) revisited, the dangling from this or that, or diving, or dying — the A-bombs, missles ready … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Homeless Man hears “The Golden Voice” on Rittenhouse Square

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Golden Voice” is the most sentimental movie treatment of living on the streets since “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Cliched, cute and cloying, its very engaging cast is never able to overcome the weight of Hallmark Movie homelessness this script … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Legend Gets his Due as “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted”

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Documentary filmmakers are always looking for a subject that’s colorful and obscure enough to justify the years it sometimes takes to make a non-fiction film about it or them. The guys who made “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted” had … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Jewel Thief — The Heist Begins” the moment you Start Streaming this Piffle

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Slick, silly and production-designed to death, “Jewel Thief” is a Netflix franchise starter that’s cartoonish enough to be a non-starter. “The Heist Begins” is about an all-knowing, infallible thief (Saif Ali Khan) blackmailed into stealing a nine-year-old’s idea of what … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: An Animated Fantasy that takes a Little Boy “Into the Wonderwoods”

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Animation director Vincent Parannaud did the adult and masterful “Persepolis,” one of the best animated films of the new millenium. Here, he’s aiming for a younger demo with a visually arresting tale of a child lost in enchanted woods, trying … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pokey, Soapy “The Last Rodeo” can’t Quite Manage the Dismount

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Last Rodeo” is a sentimental family melodrama set in cattle country against the backdrop of championship level rodeoing. It’s a decent showcase for three of the very best character actors in the business, although its predictability, slow pace and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Sensual Demands of Movie Costuming the “Diamonds (Diamonti)” of Italian Film

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ferzan Özpetek, director of “Loose Cannons” and the recent Netflix romance “Nuovo Olimpo” rounded up a lot of famous Italian actresses for this movie about movie making — making a ’70s period piece and obsessing about what the ladies will … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A 19th Century Japanese “Suicide Squad” fights off the Emperor’s Army — “11 Rebels”

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Kazuya Shiraishi’s “11 Rebels” is an often entertaining Samurai thriller that wallows in the conventions and tropes of the genre. The conventions of Samurai thrillers and American Westerns cross-polinated so long ago that it’s hard to remember which culture’s action … Continue reading →

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