Monthly Archives: September 2025

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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Movie Preview: Mads Mikkelsen protects a little girl from “Monsters” real and imagined — “Dust Bunny”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sigourney Weaver and David Dastmalchian also star in this holiday (Dec.) thriller from Bryan Fuller, who scripted a lot of “Star Trek” episodes, and created TV’s “Hannibal” for Mads.

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Movie Review: “Squid Game” Star Brings Swagger to “Yadang: The Snitch”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dirty cops, corrupt prosecutors and tainted politicians collide in “Yadang: The Snitch,” a twisty thriller about how drugs not only kill people, they stain every corner of The State that they touch. The debut feature of Hwang Byeong-guk is built … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink”

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

The thing that instantly dates Rick Goldsmith’s documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” — a film about the Internet, hedge-fund and tycoon-driven death of American newspapers — is the gasping attempt to find something optimistic in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “The Partisan” fights the odds and the Nazis in WWII Poland

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Morgane Polanski and Malcolm McDowell star in this mistitled “true story” retelling of the derring do of Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish spy run back into Warsaw by the Brits to supply the resistance there. Malcolm McDowell is her British handler. … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Marc Maron’s Evolving Comedy, and Embrace of Podcasting — “Are We Good?”

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

I review lots of stand up docs because it’s a profession and calling that I find fascinating. There were nights, earlier in my career, when I’d sit down with a stand-up before his or her set in a club, interview … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Do you see “Wuthering Heights” in this Margot Robbie movie trailer? 

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jacob Elordi is Heathcliff, with Hong Chao and Martin Clunes in what is sure to be a sexed up take on the 1847 Emily Bronte novel of the Yorkshire moors. The seventh big screen version of this celebrated novel might … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” is Vintage Spike & Denzel

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Spike Lee movie as self-assured, cocky and indulgent as “Highest 2 Lowest.” The film, a remake of a 1963 Akira Kurosawa kidnapping thriller based on a novel by Ed McBain, is long … Continue reading →

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