Monthly Archives: May 2025

Movie Review: Rickards and Lucas tag team for “Queen of the Ring”

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Queen of the Ring” is a two-fisted crowd-pleasing biopic of pioneering “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke, the “Kansas Cyclone” who rose from dropping men to the mat at county fairs and carnivals to become the first Million Dollar Female Athlete as … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Denzel and Spike, “Highest 2 Lowest”

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A hardass music mogul faces an old school, off the books ransom/shakedown. Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera and A$AP Rocky also star in Spike’s latest. August 22, from Apple/A24

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Movie Review: A Chinese Cop and Robber bromance — “Hunt the Wicked”

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Hunt the Wicked” is a dopey, cheesy cop-teams-with-a-robber shoot’em-up, punch’em-down, kick’em-where it hurts thriller from China. A serious read on it has to note its tale of official corruption, with a mayor secretly running a narcotics empire under the noses … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson and I guess Brandon Lessard are “The Unholy Trinity”

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Trinity” is the name of the town in this Western, and a word revered in Spaghetti Western circles thanks to the “They Call Me Trinity” films starring Terrence Hill in the early ’70s. Native American actress Q’orianka Kilcher (“A New … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Thunderbolts*” open big, but Marvel BIG? Maybe not. “Sinners” abide, “Minecraft” mines on…

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

A big Thursday night ($11.5) pushed Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” through a robust Friday, which Disney says added $20 million to that for a $31.5 million “opening day,” with Saturday and Sunday adding up to a $76 million opening weekend. As that’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Marvel’s New “A” Team earns its asterisk — “Thunderbolts*”

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

It takes a solid hour to get going, and pretty much as long to identify its characters. Good luck if you buy a ticket and show up without more background than you typically need to know for a comic book … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Janney and Cranston head a ’70s small-time “theatre” family where “Everything’s Going to be Great”

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Show business at the dinner theater/regional theater level in the ’70s, this one pairs up Oscar winner Allison Janney with her “I, Tonya” screenwriter and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston as parents of one “Theatre Kid” and his reluctant older brother. … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Astronaut, Glass Ceiling Breaker, Heroine, Queer Icon — “Sally” Ride

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

This overdue bio-doc hits National Geographic on June 16, and rolls onto streamers Disney+ and Hulu June 17.

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Netflixable? German soldier loses her son in “Exterritorial” territory — the U.S. Embassy

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Welcome to the golden age of America as Outlaw State, as depicted in international action cinema. “Exterritorial” has Americans as treasonous allies, corrupt drug smugglers and heartless bureaucrats — kidnapping children and Belarussian refugees, selling “intel” to common enemies and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “The Return of Martin Guerre,” the Original “Deep Fake”(1982)

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Before he became the French poster boy for “sexual predator,” Gerard Depardieu was the unlikeliest screen sex symbol of his era. Burly to the point of huge, played a soulful “Cyrano” and took on Jean Valjean in a TV version … Continue reading →

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