Monthly Archives: August 2025

Movie Preview: David Koepp’s script puts Liam Neeson and a couple of killer fungus fighting kids in “Cold Storage”

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

So, REAL strong “Andromeda Strain” played for laughs vibe coming from this “Virus” “Contagion” zombie apocalypse picture. Liam and Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery and nepo baby Sosie Bacon and Lesley MANVILLE and VANESSA REDGRAVE? David Koepp scripted most of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jon Heder is “Waltzing with Brando,” aka Billy Zane

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Honestly, having interviewed Billy Zane a few times over the years, hanging around with that dude would be pretty fun and “out there.” But as Brando? Man. This is about Brando’s grandiose plans for his South Pacific island — home, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Hal Hartley’s still around, figuring out “Where to Land”

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A filmmaker of that Henry Jaglom/Tom DiCillo/Nicole Holofcener generation of indies serves up a story of a former rom-com director who finds himself applying to work at a cemetery. Bill Sage stars, with Gia Crovatin, veteran heavy Robert John Burke … Continue reading →

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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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It is sick sick SICK to open “Freaky Friday” the same day as “Weapons”

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

I’m just saying.

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Series Review: Momoa’s “Shogun” sized epic of Hawai’i’s struggle to unite — “Chief of War”

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jason Momoa had to play “Aquaman” a bunch of times, put in his time in “Dune” and “Fast and Furious” movies and muscle through a season of “Game of Thrones” to build up the clout it took to get “Chief … Continue reading →

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