Monthly Archives: July 2025

Movie Review: Israeli history as remembered by “Shoshana” and her British lover

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director of “Welcome to Sarejevo, ” “A Mighty Heart” and “The Road to Guantanamo” reaches for another hot button topic with “Shoshana,” a historical thriller about the bloody birth of Israel. With global condemnation and outrage over Israel’s apartheid … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Madelyn Cline reads “The Map that Leads to You”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

How to cure “The Gen Z stare?” Endless, affluent, carefree travel through Europe. The “map” we presume is on Google. “Outer Banks” starlet Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa play star-crossed lovers who meet on a Euro trip Josh Lucas plays … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Friends and lovers face “A Medieval Faire reject” executioner in the LGBTQ horror comedy “Road Head”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Freestyle just picked this up for digital RE-release (it got a limited launch in 2021) July 29. There’s a chuckle or two in the trailer.

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Movie Review: As “Indie” as they come — “AJ Goes to the Dog Park”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

“AJ Goes to the Dog Park” is a cheerfully cheesy semi-surreal indie film about what one dopey chihuahua owner will go through to get his dog park back. It’s twee in the extreme, with the occasional sophisticated effect — “No … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Messy, Violent and Problematic birth of Israel seen through the eyes of “Shoshona” and Her Brit Beau

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Timely? You think? July 25.

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Classic Film Review: Verhoeven showcases Hauer as his WWII Dutch “Soldier of Orange”(1977)

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Long before “Robocop” made him a household name and “Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls” and “Starship Troopers” made him infamous, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven gained international acclaim for a few films in his native Holland, the most enduring of which is his … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Biopic about Tourette’s and one man’s war against it — “I Swear”

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and determined that others shouldn’t have to endure what he did, the Scot John Davidson collected an MBE for his efforts to raise awareness about Tourette Syndrome. Robert Aramyo, Peter Mullen and Shirley Henderson star in this biopic, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: McKenna Grace and Jojo Regina plays sisters who lay low after Momma’s Death — “What We Hide”

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

The System and a punk placed by Dacre Montgomery menace these two in “What we Hide,” which opens Aug. 29.

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Movie Preview: A 1980s effort to comically restart The Peloponnesian War – “A Spartan Dream”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ’80s period piece with a dollop of Greco American whimsy? Cute. And way before Gerry Butler made “This is SPARTA” a great rallying cry and punchline. Aug.15.

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Netflixable? Tyler Perry’s Back in Drag for “Madea’s Destination Wedding”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

You just know that what few conditions Netflix probably had in the big fat contract it gave the prolific Tyler Perry, one of them was “Give us a Madea movie every now and then.” Because even if his hilariously outspoken … Continue reading →

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