Daily Archives: August 5, 2025

Movie Preview: Mckenna Grace, Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Mason Thames — “Regretting You”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

The author “This Ends With Us” is adapted again for this uplifting (or else) tragic romance directed by the filmmaker who made the weeper “The Fault in Our Stars.” Wiliiams and Grace plays a mother and daughter tested by tragedy. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ralph Fiennes is a WWI choirmaster with a bit too much German about him for “The Choral”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A real Who’s Who of British character actors flesh out the supporting cast — Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale and Mark Addy among them — of this film from “The Madness of King George” Nicholas Hytner and the screenwriter Alan … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser’s an Actor in Tokyo taking the role of a lifetime — “Rental Family”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Japanese/American variation on the “Get somebody to play her dad” story trope. Ever seen Gerard Butler in “Dear Frankie,” for instance? Searchlight has Hikari’s  “Rental Family,” a dollop of sweetness, slated for the holidays. She directed “Beef” and “37 … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Godard, Bardot, Palance and “The Odyssey” — “Contempt” (1963)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jean-Luc Godard, the most-analyzed, dissected and critiqued auteur of his generation makes his grand statement on the compromises and sell-outs required by salope déesse cinema with “Contempt,” his biggest-ever hit, a movie about making movies. The critic turned cinematic revolutionary … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Lost in Dementia and Memory Care, seeking that “Familiar Touch”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Familiar Touch” is a simple, documdrama-real film of frank honesty and sensitivity about dementia and adjusting to life in Memory Care. If you’re fortunate enough to not know that label, describing the wing or floor of any nursing home or … Continue reading →

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