Monthly Archives: September 2025

Netflixable? Phylicia, Seraya and Tyler riff on The Book of Ruth — “Ruth & Boaz”

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Biblical “Book of Ruth” was the inspiration for “Ruth & Boaz,” a modern, semi-faith-based romantic melodrama from the fantasy factory that is Tyler Perry Studios. Ruth isn’t a widow who bonds with her widowed mother in law, meeting the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: McConaughey, Ferrara and Greengrass rally around “The Lost Bus”

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Paul Greengrass, one of the last and greatest of the cinema’s action auteurs, stages, shoots and edits the hell out of “The Lost Bus,” turning a conventional enough “true story” of children trapped on a schoolbus in a raging wildfire … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Running on Empty” pretty much sums this Rom Com Up

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Running on Empty” is a dark comedy that tests the comic limits of the infamous “Gen Z stare.” A deadpan rom-com about death, it has reliable comics in supporting roles and co-stars Lucy Hale. And it is stillborn thanks, in … Continue reading →

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Series Review: “House of Guinness” is a Pint in a Gilded Gallon-sized Glass

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

How long does it take you to decide if a streaming series is worth bingeing all the way to the end? One episode? Three? Five? That’s why such series frontload the action, the parade of characters, the colorful settings and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Thank You Very Much” is the Deepest and Most Thorough Andy Kaufman Remembrance of All

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

There have been scads of TV specials, documentaries and books about comic performance artist, singer and hoaxer Andy Kaufman in the 41 years since his death. I swear I’ve tried to take in one and all, from that sentimental, cute … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Friendship. An Affair. What’s Missing? “All of You”

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brett Goldstein burns through a little of his “Ted Lasso” capital with “All of You,” a “When Harry Met Sally” platonic-friends-can’t-stay platonic romance co-starring Imogen Poots. The friends “since uni” story, co-written by Goldstein, is at its best when our … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Cross Liam in the Himalayas and he will Truck You Up — “Ice Road: Vengeance”

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

OMG there are some real LOLs packed into the Liam Neeson action sequel, “Ice Road: Vengeance.” Sadly enough, there aren’t many of them that are intentional. It’s implausible but far from impossible to believe the sight of gaunt, weathered 70something … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Tale from the Resistance — “One Battle After Another”

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Revolution,” Gil Scott-Heron taught us, “will not be televised.” But it might turn up on the big screen. And not just in the end game of “Civil War.” “One Battle After Another” is a reminder that the struggle never … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: An Ealing Comedy of Capital and Labor and “The Man in the White Suit” (1951)

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the years after “The War,” Britons got back to indulging the quirkier aspects of a national character that “Keep Calm and Carry On” had superceded, at least as far as “Fritz” and his “Bloodthirsty Guttersnipe” gang were concerned. The … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Moss and Hudson battle over the “Shell” of Eternal Beauty

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Shell” is a body horror thriller with hints of Michael Critchton’s “At What Price Eternal Beauty?” sci-fi “Looker,” and pretensions of the Demi Moore satire it borrows from the most, “The Substance.” An actress pursues the latest thing in beauty … Continue reading →

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