Monthly Archives: September 2025

Movie Review: A Pixie talks to Pumpkins and makes one “Grow”

Posted on September 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Gather round, ladies and gents, “boys and gourds,” for a Scots-flavored tale of a little girl who communes with plants. “Grow” is a cute-aiming-for-cutesie comedy about Halloween, a pumpkin growing contest and learning to “go organic” because that’s what the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Mixed Martial Artist with an “Affinity” for Fighting, but not Screenwriting

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Marko Zaror makes a statement on his martial arts skills — as a fighter and fight director — in “Affinity,” a B-picture that drifts into C-movie territory every time the fighting stops. A towering brawler who figured prominently in the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Come to Mallorca, “Fall for Me”

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Fall for Me” is a sexy German thriller flavored with mystery and intrigue and set on the Spanish vacation island of Mallorca. Director Sherry Hormann (“A Regular Woman,” “Desert Flower”) and screenwriter Stephanie Sycholt (“Themba”) get the sex and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Remaking Hitchcock with “Coyotes” instead of “Birds?”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Yeah, that’s a reach. This nature-at-its-most-monstrous thriller is played for twisted laughs, with Justin Long and Kate Bosworth as a couple trying to survive a pack’s attack on their privileged lives. Brittany Allen and Norbert Leo Butz also star. October … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson make The Holidays One Big Sing-Along — “Song Sung Blue”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Vietnam Vet Neil Diamond “interpreter” meets his muse, the daughter of a Hudson Brother. A “comeback” for Kate and for “Hustle & Flow” writer-director Craig Brewer? As your friendly neighborhood Scarecrow might put it. “JOY! RAPTURE! This opens Christmas … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Halloween Comedy about Pumpkin-cultivating in Limey Land — “Grow”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Kid friendly, with Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks and Tim McInnerny among the familiar faces in this Fathom Entertainment release set for Oct. 3. Looks very cute, and the director did “Anna and the Apocalypse.” Worth a go, no?

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Movie Preview: Count them. There Must be more than Seven — “Samurai Fury”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Epic much? Oct. 7.

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Movie Review: “The Map that Leads to You,” via Spain, Portugal and Rome

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A pretty and capable young cast and a grand tour of the sights of Northern Spain and Portugal recommend “The Map that Leads to You,” a sweet nothing of a travelogue with lots of wish fulfillment fantasy about it. Madelyn … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dafoe’s a Rich Tyrant who Celebrates “The Birthday Party”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

There are no billionaires like Greek billionaires, right? Vic Carmen Sonne, Emma Suárez, Elsa Lekakou and Maria Pau Pigem are the women at this “Welcome to my island” oligarch’s “family” and powerful friends birthday party. Joe Cole plays “The Journalist,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner — “Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

A monsignor is the murder victim in this third Rian Johnson/Daniel Craig whodunnit, with Cailee Spaeny, Thomas Haden Church, Josh O’Connor and Andrew Scott also on board. Craig is plainly having his Best Post Bond Career, I do declare. Nov. … Continue reading →

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