Monthly Archives: September 2025

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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Netflixable? Action Comedy Lampoons a Real Life Serial Killer Case — “Inspector Zende”

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Inspector Zende” is an action comedy take on an infamous real-life serial killer case, a movie that hunts for laughs in hapless but dogged Indian policing. Writer-director Chinmay Mandlekar makes his feature directing debut in this made-for-Netflix movie, and never … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “John Candy: I Like Me”

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

He could be the jovial, jolly “big man” stereotype, a walking sight gag, the above it all conniving hustler or slacker and a scary guy to cross. The movies fixated on the former and the middle versions of John Candy … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” Forever and Ever, Amen.

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Conjuring” universe staggers and finally folds in on itself with “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” a tedious, stumbling “finale” (perhaps) to a franchise that cannot help but repeat itself. Even the ongoing presence of Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Emmy … Continue reading →

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