Monthly Archives: June 2025

Movie Review: Broadbent “walks 500 miles” in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Oscar winner Jim Broadbent earns a fine showcase in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” a sweet story of grief, regret, obligations and the kindness of strangers. It’s based on a novel by Rachel Joyce that seems inspired by any … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Hey Vern! Jim Varney gets his own bio doc — “The Importance of Being Ernest”

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

I was working in Tennessee near the end of the Ernest P. Worrell fad and got to interview this serious actor turned famous bumkin goofball. He’d come into town to help talk actors into joining acting unions, make appearances plugging … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Improv Comics Howard, Mohammed and Bloom go “Deep Cover” looking for laughs in London

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Deep Cover” is an exceptionally silly Brit comedy about improv actors lying on the fly as undercover bait for London police. Logic goes out the window early on, with no means of re-entry. And it’s built around Bryce Dallas Howard, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “M3GAN 2.0,” an Update Nobody Needed

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A tip of the hat to Ivana Sakhno, who gives one of the more convincingly metallic turns as a woman-playing a robot in “M3GAN 2.0,” a killer robot sequel that leans even harder into well-founded AI phobia. She is Maria … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “F1” doesn’t miss a gear, or a trick

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

“F1” is a shiny, streamlined and perfectly aerodynamic version of an old fashioned star vehicle. The star in this case is Brad Pitt, one of the most popular leading men of his generation. So it’s only natural he and director … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “Shari & LambChop” take another bow

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’ve got to be a certain age to have any idea what this title is about and to remember how big a deal this early children’s TV act was. Coming soon.

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Netflixable? Baby Ballerina is Slow to Figure Out who the “Bad Influence” in her Life Is

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a sordid little teen-in-trouble tease from Spain that promises threats, sex and violence presented in the most melodramatic situations possible in assorted posh settings decorated by overdressed members of the upper class and underclass. “Bad Influence” is about a … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A bullfighter’s life in the Ring, “Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad)”

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

Any intimate, detailed documentary about what goes on during a bullfight is going to chase away probably two thirds of the populace in this day and age. Those who avoid it have a point. “Afternoons of Solitude,” which follows pouty … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “If I Could Ride Again” barely Mounts Up

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

If only anyone could actually, you know, RIDE in “If Only I Could Ride Again,” maybe this limp noodle of a New England horse country melodrama might have some credibility. There’s scene after scene after scene of young women in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Swiss Mom Takes Lovers to Fool Her son about his father — “Let Me Go”

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Let Me Go” is an intimate, brittle and somewhat chilly Swiss romance about a 40something single mom who stumbles into her feelings, despite a lifetime of avoiding that trap. Jeanne Balibar stars as a small town seamstress who takes regular … Continue reading →

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