Monthly Archives: September 2026

Series Review: Not Your Grandpa’s “Grand Tour”

Posted on September 6, 2026 by Roger Moore

The dropping of a new series of “The Grand Tour” held about as much interest for me as the announcement that the BBC is re-engineering “Top Gear” for another run, this time with a comedian/car-nut as its center. It’s TV, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Eyes Off the Prize? Civil Rights Justice “By Any Means”

Posted on September 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

The all-too-human lust for vengeance collides with the faint hope for justice in “By Any Means,” a Civil Rights thriller set in the “Mississippi Burning” timeline. It’s a violent “true enough for Hollywood” tale of torture and summary executions in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Godawful Gal can’t get “The Runner” up to Speed

Posted on September 3, 2026 by Roger Moore

The star is generally too easy a target when you’re looking for the ways a movie goes wrong. So if we’re cutting Gal Gadot any slack at all for the debacle that “The Runner” turned out to be, let’s zero … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ryan R. and Kenneth B. gun for “Top Gun” — “Mayday”

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

Let’s go with “adorably awful,” because “delightfully dumb” seems like a stretch. “Mayday” is a pseudo-serious send-up of “Top Gun” starring two guys who should know better, but whose way with a punch line ensures it’ll at least serve up … Continue reading →

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Series Redux — “Saturday Night Live,” the First Season

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

I’ve been thinking a lot of late about Martin Short’s assertion — in Lawrence Kasdan’s “Life is Short” documentary — that “80 percent of comedy” fails, and the fact that he wasn’t talking just about his own efforts in landing … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hello, Dolly — “9 to 5” becomes a Clarion Call for Working Women

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in … Continue reading →

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