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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Movie Review: “When the Game Stands Tall” falls short
“When the Game Stands Tall” is a solid if unsurprising and uninspiring melodrama built around high school football, faith-based but “Friday Night Lite.” It’s the latest of that peculiar sub genre of sports films, where filmmakers bend over backwards to … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Same “Sin City,” different “Dame to Kill For”
“Sin City” is back in all its lurid, gory glory, a vivid and visceral graphic novel come to life in the capable hands of Robert Rodriguez and co-director and comic book creator Frank Miller. If anything, it’s a more gorgeous … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “If I Stay”
Manipulative, contrived, melodramatic — all labels we slap on that most perfectly titled movie genre, “the weeper.” All fit “If I Stay” like original packaging. Teenage girls and the boys who want to date them need to discover the pleasures … Continue reading
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Indie Summer? Independent, foreign films and documentaries made tiny marks this summer
I guess it was looking over the box office take of “Boyhood,” the most acclaimed film of the summer and certainly independent cinema’s darling of the year, that prompted this perusal of the box office tallies of the offbeat. Summer … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “May in the Summer”
The religious and cultural fault lines of the Middle East get thoroughly blurred in “May in the Summer,” the second feature film from the Palestinian-American actress-writer-director Cherian Dabis (“Amreeka”). The setting and various religious rifts are unfamiliar, if the domestic/romantic … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Are You Here?”
“Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner takes his act to the big screen with “Are You Here?” which turns out to be the most quotable Owen Wilson comedy since “Zoolander.” It’s a bit all over the place, a stoner comedy with … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Possession of Michael King”
As “found footage” horror movies go, “The Possession of Michael King” is more unpleasant than scary. The self-inflicted wounds, menace to innocents and general supernatural mayhem is nothing we haven’t seen before — the old “body yanked out of the … Continue reading
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Hot trailer: Johnny Depp, a possible franchise funnyman in “Mortdecai”?
The comedy from the director of “Ghost Town” is based on Kyril Bonfiglioli novels about a Clouseau-esque upper crust twit/con-man, etc. Daffy looking. February.
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Movie Review — “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar”
Every so often, a movie comes along and reminds us of the primacy of the pretty picture, the importance of the image in telling a motion picture story. “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” is so gorgeously photographed that it’s very much … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies: A bunch of weak films, and “Frank” and “Trip to Italy” open this weekend
You knew the third time would reveal “The Expendables” had passed their expiration date. So did Stallone, who brings in a lot of fresh meat to go with his geezers. Banderas steals a rather weak actioner. Poor reviews for “Expendables … Continue reading
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