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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Classic Film Review: Edwards and Sellers crash “The Party” in Hollywood (1968)
A wicked thought crossed my mind midway through re-watching the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers farce “The Party,” one of three times the great British funnyman donned brownface to play Indian characters. What would have happened had Sellers, a comic legend and … Continue reading
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Tagged blake-edwards, comedy, film, history, indian-stereotypes, mancini, movies, peter-sellers
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BOX OFFICE: “Minions” Wear Out their Welcome, “Washington” isn’t Celebrating, “Supergirl” sinks like a Stone
There’s a LOT to unpack with this holiday weekend’s box office take, stretched to five days thanks to the early opening of “Minions & Monsters.” So let’s dig in. The umpteenth iteration of Universal’s venerable “Despicable Me/Minions” franchise was expected … Continue reading
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Tagged box-office, film, horror, kelsey-grammer, minions, movie, movies, Reviews, supergirl
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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays
“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading
Neflixable? “Enola Homes 3” Beats a Dead Horse
The bare minimum you expect from a sleuthing action comedy of the “Anybody Named Holmes” variety is that it hold your interest. Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 3” falls short of even that low bar. It’s got a wedding and a few … Continue reading
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Tagged books, ebook, enola, fantasy, fiction, henry-cavill, millie-bobby-brown
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Movie Review: Striving and Social Climbing, “Young Washington” takes the Shape of the Man He Became
Stately, staid and yet somehow still satisfying, “Young Washington” is a (mostly) by-the-book biography of the early life that shaped The Father of Our Country. It’s well-cast and handsomely mounted, and only falls into hagiography — rather obviously and clumsily … Continue reading
Documentary Review: “Chris and Martina: The Final Set” of a Love Match built on Sportsmanship
The recent news that former tennis champ Chris Evert’s cancer has returned for the third time adds more real-life poignance to a lovely new documentary about her and her longtime foe and friend, Martina Navratilova. “Chris & Martina: The Final … Continue reading
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Tagged breast-cancer, chris-evert, history, martina, netflix, ovarian-cancer, tennis, writing
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Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”
In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading
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Tagged beirut, documentary, film, israel, lebanon, middle-east, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”
These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged film, jack-ryan, krasinski, movies, Reviews, sienna-miller, tom-clancy
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Netflixable? “Little Brother” makes Cena Look Small
Netflix has made inroads in horror and begun to make a mark in prestige pcitures. But they cornered the market on teen rom-coms a while back. And now, years after signing Adam Sandler, his family and hangers-on, they’re going all … Continue reading
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