Monthly Archives: October 2025

Movie Review: “One Big Happy Family?” Oy!

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Linda Lavin makes her last curtain call as graceful as the material will allow in “One Big Happy Family,” her final film before dying last December. It’s a generally mirthless comedy that strains for laughs as it struggles to graft … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: New York Neighbors Take a Feud to Theatrical Heights — “The French Italian”

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

No, the stars aren’t household names. But this looks hilarious. A loud new neighbor drives a couple out of their brownstone, and their revenge is making up a play that she must audition for and rehearse. That’s so New York … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Same Sex romance, with gags and Dominance and Devotion and Skarsgard and whatnot — “Pillion”

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Henry Melling is the ordinary looking moptop who falls hard for a domineering biker (Alexander Skarsgard) in this dom rom com. Nov. 25, this makes its way to the holiday lineup at your local cineplex.

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Movie Review: Summer of ’81, “Casey Makes a Mixtape”

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Casey Makes a Mixtape” is a wan indie coming-of-age dramedy in which nobody comes of age, nothing dramatic or comedic happens. It’s a sort of little film festival movie that couldn’t, a period piece that was never fated to pick … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Impressive Dreamscape and Disappointing Romance — “Daniela Forever”

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Movies have been tied to dreams from the very beginnings of cinema. The storytelling medium lends itself to the interior world of dreaming. And films from “Spellbound” onward have made serious attempts to recreate and interpret the experience of what … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE:  Taylor Swift” goes “Showgirl,” scores a $30 million+ weekend — The Rock’s “Smashing Machine” Smashes his Oscar Hopes

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

A documentary about the making of her album “The Life of a Showgirl” makes Taylor Swift the queen of the box office on the first weekend of October, celebrating the record’s blockbuster release with a box office smash as a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Psycho Killer,” Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

The screenwriter of “Se7en” wrote this thriller, with Georgina Campbell as the huntress and James Preston Rogers in the title role. Palpable “Fargo” meets Fincher vibe in this Gavin Polone thriller. That’s not Malcolm McDowell as the “Elderly Priest.” It … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with the Toucans, Belize

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s no cinema within a five day hike from here. So I’ll just be posting streaming or film fest titles for reviews for the next week or so, as we vacation in the gorgeous rainforest of Belize. Monkeys and Maya … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: US/Japanese Relations, Over a Century of Baseball “Diamond Diplomacy”

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a truth the average American hasn’t done the math on. “Japan has been playing baseball almost as long as the United States.” And whatever the fading state of the National Pastime on this side of the Pacific, in Japan, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pokey Cowpoke Saga takes us “Where the Wind Blows”

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

A chiseled cowboy between jobs and a newly widowed farm wife he takes a message to means a ranch in need of tending and a woman in need of a man around the house in “Where the Wind Blows,” a … Continue reading →

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