Monthly Archives: August 2025

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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Movie Preview: Showing “Him” the Horror of Pro Football’s Deal with the Devil

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Marlon Wayans explains the rules, the deal, to Tyriq Withers in this Jordan Peele produced allegory about The Game that Ate Sundays and what it really costs those who play it. “What are you willing to SACRIFICE?” “EVERY-thing!” Take that … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Clooney is a movie star who hits rock bottom…by co-starring with Sandler? — “Jay Kelly”

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix’s Oscar bait this awards season is to pair up Clooney with the biggest cretin they have under contract? Noah Baumbach keeps trying to normalize-elevate mouth-breathing no-talent Adam Sandler. Jim Broadbent, Clooney, Laura Dern — all these damned Oscar winners, … Continue reading →

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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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