Monthly Archives: November 2025

Documentary Review: A Horror Icon revisits His Many Touchstones — “Sangre del Toro”

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Guillermo del Toro is not just the fanboy’s fanboy, a comic book collector (“Horror comics, mostly.”) turned Oscar winning horror director. He rivals his idol David Cronenberg as the reigning intellectual of his genre, a thoughtful, philosophical Mexican who knows … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “After the Hunt” prematurely looks at #MeToo and Cancel Culture in the Rear View Mirror

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“After the Hunt” re-litigates the #MeToo/Cancel Culture wars and muddies the waters about what has and is being achieved by this latest rift along the gender and generation gaps. It’s only mildly provocative and not at all satisfying. But it’s … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “When We Went MAD'” for a Humor Magazine

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

It was more obvious 40 years ago, but we in America live in a MAD culture, a land of mockery, parody and running gags aimed at the institutions, pop trends, entertainment and “Americana” that we once thought of as “sacred … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gael Garcia Bernal, “Magellan”

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

This Lav Diaz film is the Philippines’ entry on the Best International Feature Oscar race. Epic, but hardly old fashioned, on the way it treats the “cost” of “discovery” and conquest

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Movie Preview: An action pic about Mercenaries in Africa that’s titled “Lost Horizon?”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mercenaries trying to carry out a rescue of some sort in the middle of an African civil war. Sounds a lot like a Christopher Walken outing from the ’80s, “Dogs of War.” The title “Lost Horizon” has been emblazened on … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Life Lived with Loss and a Search for meaning — “Train Dreams”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Train Dreams” is a forlorn folk ballad with pretensions of being a tone poem. This downboat but picturesque saga of one man’s life during the lumbering-mad early years of the 20th century is both intimate and remote. We see a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Wicked: For Good” does Dorothy Wrong

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I said at the start that turning “Wicked” the musical into a two-part big screen epic was a mistake. Just how big a mistake is obvious as this bloated beast staggers to the end of the Yellow Brick Road in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Sisu: Road to Revenge” takes a Wrong Turn or Three

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I am an audience of one at a late afternoon “preview” matinee of “Sisu 2,” aka “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” the sequel to the savage sleeper hit by Finnish carnage Jalmari Helander. Do the locals know something I don’t? Or … Continue reading →

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Movie Marathon Thursday, “Wicked for Good,” “Rental Family” and “Sisu 2: Finno-Russian Boogaloo”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Erivo, Arianna and Goldblum again, Brendan F speaking Japanese and Stephen Lang as a Russian trying to kill an unkillable Finn. Again. A few more songs, some curious corners of Japanese culture and dead Russians by the dozen. A pretty … Continue reading →

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