Monthly Archives: July 2025

Documentary Preview: “Kerouac’s Road — The Beat of a Nation”

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Natalie Merchant, W. Kamau Bell, Josh Brolin, Jay McInerny, Matt Dillon and Kerouac’s pal, jazzman David Amran, are among those testifying to the genius of his masterpiece, “On the Road.” Slick, star-studded, some guy from Michelle Obama’s WH staff directed … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Muay Thai vs Zombies — “Ziam”

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Nothing to see here, just another country and another culture coping with the Zombie Apocalypse. “Ziam” is basically a test for those of us committed to watching any thriller featuring Muay Thai martial artists facing and dispensing with hordes of … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Race in the Deep South of Faulkner and Clarence Brown — “Intruder in the Dust” (1949)

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

The late novelist Harper Lee was press-shy almost her entire life, especially after “To Kill a Mockingbird” made her world famous. That was her way of avoiding answering one obvious question that weighs on the mind of cinephiles. “Did you … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Aziz Ansari Directs! Keanu and Keke and Seth and himself — “Good Fortune”

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

An R-rated guardian angel with Keanu Reeves at his most dopey/earnest? Sandra Oh and Sherry Cola show up. Sure. This could work. Oct. 17.

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Movie Preview: A Courtroom Canine Comedy from France — “Dog on Trial”

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Zut alors! This looks adorbs.

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“Costner’s The West” and LeBron’s “Jim Thorpe: Lit By Lightning” — Can they rescue The History Channel?

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

The advent of streaming and video on demand has hastened an inconvenient and often downright unseemly devolution of “channels” and what they used to mean to the TV consumer. The long-established “evolve or die” desperation of basic cable/dish meant that … Continue reading →

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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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