Monthly Archives: October 2025

Movie Review: A Soap Opera’s Season of Intrigues Precede the Famous Painting “Auction”

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

What an immersive byzantine delight the French dramedy “Auction” turns out to be. The latest from writer-director Pascal Bonitzer (“The Young Karl Marx,” and he scripted “Gemma Bovery”) is a playfully malicious peek behind the scenes of big money art … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “A Woman with No Filter” has some Grievances to Air

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the tradition of “A Woman Under the Influence,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “It’s My Turn,” and generations of women coming into their own in films comes “A Woman with No Filter,” a Brazilian comedy that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wahlberg, Key, Lakeith and Shalhoub “Play Dirty” in Shane Black-land

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Shane Black? Glib one-liners and glib gunplay? Bigger and bigger action, with a bigger and bigger bodycounts? The actor turned writer and writer-director who peaked with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” made his way to a “comeback” with “The Nice Guys” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Need an Assassin? Call “The Old Woman with the Knife”

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Lee Hye-Young stars in this Korean slicer-for-hire thriller from the director of “Memento Mori,” Min Kyu-dong. The plot is as old as “The Mechanic” — the Charles Bronson original — and reflects another variation on “Killers of a Certain Age.” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Filipino Gay Hustlers’ Odyssey — “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking”

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hooking up in bus station restrooms, hustling clients for sex in a cinema, police harassment, bullying, drugs, death and an impromptu funeral are on the menu of “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking,” a melodramatic saunter through one unnaturally long … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Renewing “The Commitments” to Irish Soul and Irish Joy (1991)

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Twas the writer Roddy Doyle who re-introduced the literary world to the concept of “Irish joy.” Sure’twas. His “Barrytown Trilogy” of comic novels in the late ’80s and early ’90s — the self-published sensation “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The … Continue reading →

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June Lockhart — 1925-2025, “Lassie’s” Mom, “Lost in Space”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

I can’t for the life of me remember why some PR firm was trotting “Lassie,” “Lost in Space” and “Petticoat Junction” TV star June Lockhart around in the ’80s. But I was a kid working in public radio in Charlotte, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Consequences of Renewing the Nuclear Option — “A House of Dynamite”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You expect a movie about the renewed Cold War and its radioactive endgame to be dispiriting, just in that “Here we go again/Been there, barely survived that” sense. But the timing of Kathryn Bigelow’s grim, cautionary and “Don’t come here … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Chainsaw Man” anime owns the weekend, “Springsteen,” “Regretting You” and “Black Phone 2” chase second place

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The shrunken state of moviegoing in North America has left the field wide open for films with dedicated fringe audiences to dominate many a box office weekend. “Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc” is the latest Sony Crunchyroll import … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A “Boxcutter” Dreams of his Big Hip Hop Break…in Toronto

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

An aspiring rapper pins all his hopes on a make-or-break meeting with a famous producer at a “secret” party that everybody knows about in “Boxcutter,” an amiable street-life dramedy set on the not-so-mean streets of Toronto. It’s a tale with … Continue reading →

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