Monthly Archives: December 2025

Movie Review: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is our Tour Guide among “We Strangers”

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A hint of the inscrutable can do service to any film in any genre, and it pays off some surprising ways in “We Strangers,” an oddball domestic dramedy about a “domestic” and the dizzy white folks who hire her. Veteran … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Udo Kier is “My Neighbor Adolf”

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

As comedies about Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazis hiding out in South America go, “My Neighbor Adolf” is no “Mr. Kaplan.” One of the last films to star the late Udo Kier, it’s a curious, gentle and downbeat tale about … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Detour” (1945), still as Noir as Film Noir Gets

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“That’s life,” the anti-hero of “Detour” growls in voice-over. “Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.” Hardboiled, archetype-upending and gorgeous in its bare-bones minimalism, “Detour” is quintessential film noir. “The Maltese Falcon” preceded it and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Koreans face Doomsday — “The Great Flood”

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Preppers, survivalists, Rapture fans and doomsday cultists may get a kick out of “The Great Flood,” a downbeat-to-the-point-of-bleak thriller about the End of Human Civilization. A young Korean mother (Kim Da-Mi) carries her six year-old (Kwon Eun-sung) up several flights … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Dazzling Tedium

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

James Cameron was very much running out of interesting things to say and show in his “Avatar” franchise with the second movie, “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The third film, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” confirms that fear and adds on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Seyfried’s the House Mistress, Sydney Sweeney’s “The Housemaid”

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sydney Sweeney’s fans will come to the “The Housemaid” for the nudity and the explicit sex. Or so the cleavage-crammed advertising for this thriller would suggest the studio believes. But they’ll stay for the violence, the twists, the climax and … Continue reading →

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It’s an “Avatar” afternoon

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Let’s see if there’s anything to see or make a fuss about. Interesting way for James Cameron to spend his filmmaking capital and his last years as a major director, in any event. As the pre show ads are playing … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lost in the Lush Longueurs of “Paris, Texas”(1984)

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

One has learned to temper one’s expectations when settling in to watch any Palme d’Or winner from the Cannes Film Festival over the years. One has. A “best picture” honor selected by an ever-changing jury of filmmaking peers from all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: You Can’t Go Home Again, “Blue Eyed Girl”

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Realistic mid-life concerns and life reassessments earn a drab and generally colorless going over in “Blue Eyed Girl,” a dramedy with little real drama and even less comedy. Actress Marissa Coughlan, taking that “Write something for you to star in” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mexico’s Oscar hope — “We Shall Not be Moved (No nos moverán)”

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dostoyevsky’s obsession with the unpunished murderers walking among us weighs heavily on the politics of the present. Criminals whose crimes against people, nations and the rule of law are committed in plain sight or proven in court roam free. People … Continue reading →

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