Monthly Archives: December 2025

Movie Preview: January is Jason Statham Season — “Shelter”

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

A retired assassin in hiding on an island. Naomie Ackie and Bill Nighy would like to find him. Silly dears. Jan. 30.

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Movie Review: Is “The Linguini Incident” (1991) a “Forgotten Gem” of Bowie and Rosanna Arquette?

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Barely released in theaters when it was finished and tossed out on home video in a flash, “The Linguini Incident” took on a cult film afterlife thanks to its cast — David Bowie co-stars with Rosanna Arquette, Buck Henry, Andre … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Dark, Cryptic ’60s Spy Spoof from Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy — “Reflection in a Dead Diamond”

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The descriptor “spoof” carries certain implications and obligations with it, chief among them “wit.” French filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have a way with a witty title (“Let the Corpse Tan”). And their early ’60s spy spoof “Reflection in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Scots Lads Con the Early 2000s Hip Hop Scene in James McAvoy’s “California Schemin'”

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

McAvoy directs and is the biggest name star in this music industry dramedy about boys from Dundee who passed themselves off as hip hop stars Silibil N’ Brains and got a record deal and MTV appearances and tours before the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jodie Foster’s An American Therapist in France — “A Private Life”

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

When our French-speaking American shrink “loses” a patient, she takes it seriously. She starts her own investigation into what she’s sure is a murder. The great French actors Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Amalric and Aurore Clément are in the supporting cast, … Continue reading →

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Next screening? Euro-Horror in the Buñuel Mimics Lynch on his Way to Argento Vein — “Reflection in a Dead Diamond”

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

A genre mashup that played a lot of festivals and comes to Shudder Friday, this one promises to be challenging for the plot-and-performance obsessed, aka “Moi.” Looks nuts.

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Classic Film Review: A Holiday Favorite finds Renewed Relevance — “Trading Places”(1983)

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

The “greed is good” ’80s and the vast wealth gap of today created by the “trickle down economics” of the Reagan administration was just kicking in when“Trading Places,” an anarchic comedy about the greedy getting their just deserts, hit theaters. … Continue reading →

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