Daily Archives: July 7, 2025

Documentary Review: Indigenous People are the Front Line of Brazil’s Environmental Struggle — “We Are Guardians”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s hard to have much hope that the people of planet Earth will ever have a day of mass enlightenment to the environmental crises scientists and tuned-in politicians and activists have warned us about for decades, and which are plainly … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Man must prove to The State(s) that he’s not who they claim he is — “I’m Not Stiller”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s a German film with a German (Albrecht Schult) playing an American arrested and identified as someone who disappeared after getting caught up in murderous political intrigues. This adaptation of a Max Frisch novel features Paula Beer as the missing/”dead” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Nepo Baby singer-songwriter battles the memory of her Pop Legend Dad — “Singing in My Sleep”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Malin Akerman plays the perfectly credible rock-star widow/baby momma who raised a singer-songwriter (Jessica Belkin of “American Horror Story”) who is in denial about following in her “all he left me was a song” dad’s footsteps, resentful of the “all … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Coming of Age with a Kestrel — “Kes” (1970)

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Kes,” the break-out feature of Ken Loach, is an unblinking, unsentimental coming-of-age tale about a boy and his kestrel. It’s a Yorkshire “Yearling” from one of the greatest “kitchen sink realists” the British cinema produced, and one of the last. … Continue reading →

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