Monthly Archives: August 2025

Movie Review: Post WWI Germans learn there’s no recreating “Eden”

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

The setting is forbidding, the political parable heavy-handed and human nature “inevitable” in “Eden,” Ron Howard’s dip into real history for a sociology lesson that can apply to today. It’s an all-star rendering of a true story of Germans who … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Corporate Villains Kept at Bay via “Relay”

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Every thriller needs a good hook, and “Relay” has a doozy. How can you protect your anonymity and preserve your identity in the modern surveillance state, when data harvesting, phone bugging and tracing has moved from the state into the … Continue reading →

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Thursday Movie Matinees — “Relay” with Riz, or Opie Goes to “Eden”

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

The dog days of summer cinema occasionally produce a gem. “A Constant Gardener” was an Oscar winner that came out in late August, after all. Maybe it’s “A Little Prayer,” opening next weekend. Austin Butler has an action comedy next … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A little girl, a Mutt and a Quest to Save the Aussie Family Farm with the help of a “Runt”

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Where you come from doesn’t matter” when it comes to doggy obedience trials. Does it? Jai Courtney, Deborah Mailman and Jack Thompson are the big names in the cast of this Down Under family film, with Craig Silvey writing a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: New Yorkers Connect, but Avoid Attraction, Love “Or Something” Like It.

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Or Something” is a not-half-bad indie romance in the “Before Sunrise,” “In Search of a Midnight Kiss” tradition. Two strangers are thrown together for a long day of trying to collect a debt. They talk and talk and try to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Michael Chiklis is “The Senior,” a former football star looking to finish high school

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Fiftysomething, a contractor, and “I’m eligible.” “Eligible for what?” He’s “like a 59 year old ‘Rudy.’” Mary Stuart Masterson and Rob Corddry co-star in this version of the true “redemption” story of Mike Flynt, which was finished a couple of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Relationship Horror about what Constitutes a “Keeper”

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director of “Longlegs” and “The Monkey,” Osgood Perkins, parks Tatiana Maslany (“Stronger,” the “Perry Mason” remake) and another son of Donald Sutherland in his latest, which arrives in theaters just in time for the holidays (11-14). The horror. The … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Colin Farrell in Netflix’s Oscar bait — “Ballad of a Small Player”

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director of “Conclave,” the presence of Tilda Swinton, a gambling milieu and a veteran player’s descent into madness? Fala Chen, a whiff of the gambling Mecca of Macau. Because Vegas isn’t the only gaming city with a fake Eiffel … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, an “Anniversary”

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Phoebe Dynevor, Zoe Deutch, Madeline Brewer, McKenna Grace and Dylan O’Brien also star in an edgy thriller about Her son’s new girlfriend, Mom’s scary ex-student. “We don’t always know what our children are capable of.” This new thriller from the … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Returning to the Gold Standard — “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

I reviewed “The Story of Film” back when it first made its way to the US via Netflix over a dozen years ago, and like everyone else who weighed in on it, called it “a film school” course in streaming … Continue reading →

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