Daily Archives: August 8, 2025

Movie Preview: Siblings Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario find a body in Mom’s Basement, one of the trials of “Adulthood”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Gad plays a screenwriter — “I wrote for two seasons on ‘Blue Bloods’” — who ponders who killed somebody and buried them in the walls of the house he grew up in. His sister is just a tad freaked out … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley head “The Thursday Murder Club”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Those Brits and their OAP murder mystery solvers. Based on a sort of Agatha Christie-lite novel, this looks cute. A couple of Oscar winners and an ex James Bond gives it cachet. Celia Imrie is the “new” recruit to this … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Michael Douglas is a grandpa remembering his colorful past, “Looking Through Water”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

David Morse plays Grandpa’s avid angler dad in these reminiscences, with Michael Stahl David, Ximena Romo, Walter Scobell and Cameron Douglas also on board. This fishing yarn, set in Belize, is a Good Deeds Entertainment release slated to come out … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Clever clever horror, “Weapons,” Son of “Barbarian”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Glancing back at my review of “Barbarian,” the sinister, smart and sometimes funny blend of scary and silly that became actor-turned-writer/director Zack Cregger’s breakout movie a couple of years back, I’m tempted to repeat myself. He got “the simple things” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Jamie Lee and Lindsay reach for a “Freakier Friday”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s adorable that Jamie Lee Curtis spent some of her Oscar-winner capital rejoining Lindsay Lohan for another round of “Freaky Friday” body-switching hijinx. And it’s grand that Lohan survived her most problematic years and that Netflix brought her career back … Continue reading →

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