Monthly Archives: July 2026

Movie Review: “Everyone Calls Me Mike” wants to join your Gulf of Aden Sailing Passage

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Roger Moore

We all use cinematic shorthand when describing a new movie to friends or review readers. It’s not unreasonable to expect a certain cinema literacy among fellow movie lovers. So pitching the French sailing thriller “Tout le monde m’appelle Mike” — … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: David Morse Carries the Weight of a “Broken Land” along the Southern Border

Posted on July 20, 2026 by Roger Moore

There’s not much new that the movies can say about the open political sore that is immigration policy and realities along America’s southern borders. The preponderance of movies on the subject have historically been pro-immigration, not a stretch for a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Brit DJ with a Dead Brother hears the Birth of New Wave — Turn Your “Radio On”

Posted on July 19, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Radio On” is an archetypal ’60s “art film” mystery drama released on the cusp of the New Wave ’80s. The tone is downbeat, the story and performances are minimalist and the narrative is literally driven by a 1960 Rover 80 … Continue reading →

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Is Youtube Environmentalist “Dr. Edmund Hale” an AI Phony?

Posted on July 18, 2026 by Roger Moore

Have you seen the scores of Youtube “documentaries” featuring on camera narration by this Aussie looking (Outback wear) and sounding bloke who speaks with the authority of Morgan Freeman? He tells hyped tales of environmental/ecological challenges and how they’ve been … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Anya Taylor-Joy is…”Lucky?”

Posted on July 18, 2026 by Roger Moore

Anya Taylor-Joy spends most of her new series “Lucky” captured in lusty, loving close-ups. Attired, dyed, made-up, eyebrowed and false eyelashed to something akin to feminine perfection, we are left with no doubts as to where her series creator (Jonathan … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Odyssey” by Nolan

Posted on July 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sail we must, on Homer’s “wine dark sea” from Ithaca to Asia Minor and many points in between for the greatest story of them all, the tale of “a face, a fleet…of a war with Troy, of a man and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “53 Sundays” only seems to Last that Long

Posted on July 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

The prolific Barcelona screenwriter and director Cesc Gay gave us the man and his dog dramedy “Truman,” and the edgier “The People Upstairs,” aka “Sentimental,” just remade by Olivia Wilde as “The Invite.” So when you see his name on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An “Honor Student” weighs in on America’s Gun Fetish

Posted on July 15, 2026 by Roger Moore

For a preachy, unevenly-acted thriller about the threat of a school shooting, the indie “Honor Student” certainly punches above its weight. Director and co-writer Tamika Miller gets into the messy politics of gun control, references earlier school massacres, from Columbine … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Swedish Midlife Crisis? “Je M’appelle Agneta”

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

It may be a cliche, but there are few more “liberating” images in the cinema than having your heroine toss aside convention and decorum and dunk her head in the public village fountain in some eternally sunny corner of Provence. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Tom Cruise is the pot-bellied Oil Man ordered to Save the World he’s Destroyed — “Digger”

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

That cast. That director. That gut! This October, we’ve got ourselves a Hail Mary for an Oscar nomination for the movies’ Most Valuable Player.

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