Monthly Archives: May 2025

BOX OFFICE: “Thunderbolts*” lose half their spark, “Sinners” strong, “Shadow Force” ghosts in, “Juliet” left hanging

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” will own the box office until “Mission: Impossible” and “Lilo & Stitch” return. So this patchwork comic book action had better make hay while the sun shines. “Thunderbolts*” opened at an underwhelming (for a Marvel movie) $74 million … Continue reading →

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Movie preview: An Artist Flees an Unhappy Home for the Big City — with her Pet Flying Squirrel — “Bound”

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

This drama is a “festival darling”  that Freestyle picked up for wide release May 16. Another shot in the culture wars? Looks intriguing.

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Series Review: Ewan and Charley are Back in the (Motorcycle) Saddle for the “Long Way Home”

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the distinct pleasures of the streaming TV era is renewed every time old friends Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman mount up for another epic motorcycling trek in their “Long Way” series. The latest, “Long Way Home,” plays up … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Stephen King serves up horror with fascist overtones — “The Long Walk”

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Garrett Waering, Charlie Plummer, David Jonsson, Roman Griffin Davis and Ben Wang are among the younger stars of this “Hunger Games: Walk Until You Die” compeition, and Judy Greer, Mark Hamill and Michael Ironside are also in the cast. Sept … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Judo, sexism and Iranian theocracy collide on and off the mat — “Tatami”

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

The co-directors are the star of “Holy Spider” and the direct of “Skin.” And their star is most famous for the most recent incarnation of “The L Word.” In theaters June 13.

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Movie Preview: “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie,” animates TV toy kitties in San Fran, chased by Kristen Wiig

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Laila Lockhart Kraner is Gabby, in case you didn’t know. Gloria Estefan plays her San Fran granny. Wiig going full Cruella? I could totally see that. Sept. 26

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Netflixable? “Lost Bullet” to “Last Bullet” — a Cars-and-Chaos Franchise Ends

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

The “Lost Bullet” cops and smugglers franchise, France’s answer to “The Fast and the Furious” films, goes out with fireworks — literally — with “Last Bullet,” a furious and somewhat futile attempt to wrap up all the complications and traffic … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” celebrates a Character and an Actress and her role in The Strange Saga of David Lynch

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here it is, in documentary form, the Greatest “Show Must Go On” Story Ever Told. Richard Green’s “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” is a moving appreciation of the long life of a working actress, a woman rendered immortal by … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: History, Classism, War Crimes, Australian Character and a Director’s Intent Collide in “Breaker Morant” (1980)

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Australian cinema hadn’t made much of a mark internationally before The Australian New Wave hit in the mid ’70s through the very early ’80s. In a flash, Australian history, culture, character and mores were broadcast to the big wide world … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pacino and Dan Stevens are exorcists in “The Ritual”

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Another “true story” exorcism tale, this one co-starring Ashley Greene, Abigail Cowen and Patricia Heaton of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” No. Seriously. June 6.

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