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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Movie Review: “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
If America hadn’t produced Gore Vidal, we’d probably have had to import him.Novelist and playwright, wit and patrician-voiced politician, gadfly and scold, we might have been able to buy him at a British sale of surplus public intellectuals from the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Eisenberg, Fanning and Sarsgaard go eco-terrorist in “Night Moves”
The young couple doesn’t say much when they visit the remote hydroelectric dam.“No fish ladders,” she complains. “Wonder how they got around that?”There’s not a lot of spark between them, even when they’re shopping for a ski boat. They have … Continue reading
Anne Hornaday blames Seth Rogen for the Elliot Rodger massacre — Rogen isn’t having it
What were your first thoughts on seeing the snippets of video of Elliot Rodger, son of a Hollywood second unit director, as he gave his reasons for setting out on a killing spree? Hollywood brat, I thought. Not ugly, apparently … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Denzel & Fuqua’s “Equalizer” plays up the blood
“The Equalizer” was a more chilling than overtly violent TV series. Edward Woodward played the guy as a canny professional always a step or two ahead of the villains he was out to foil. The Antoine Fuqua/Denzel Washington version plays … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “We are the Best!”
Bobo and Klara, two 13 year-old Swedish girls, are having a debate by telephone. And the moment Klara (Mira Grosin) holds her phone through the cracked door, capturing a loud, pointless shouting match her free-spirited mother and father are having, … Continue reading
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Box Office: “X-Men” falls off Sat., “Blended” plunges, “Chef” soars
It’s not unusual for a front-loaded popcorn blockbuster like “Godzilla” or a comic book movie to have world beating Friday numbers which fall off on Saturday. People pack the theaters on date night to “be the first to see” these … Continue reading
Movie Preview: “The Hundred Foot Journey”
It’s East meets West, in a culinary sense, in rural France in this — yet another culinary comedy. Helen Mirren is the big name in the cast, playing a famed French chef, maybe who’s lost her edge, when an Indian … Continue reading
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Memorial Day Box Office: “X-Men” not a record, “Blended” not quite a bomb
Based on late Thursday and all-day Friday’s numbers, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” will be on the list of all-time best Memorial Day Weekend hits. But not at the top of the list. $97 million seems to be its Thursday-Sunday … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies: Can “X-Men” hit $100, is Sandman “done”?
Reviews for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” have been excellent. Yes, mine, too. It’s on nearly 3,000 screens. It’s in 3D. So there’s no reason it shouldn’t hit $100 million over a long holiday weekend, right? Box Office Guru thinks … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Fed Up” reminds us that “It’s the sugar, stupid.”
Joe, the 400 pound Latino boy from Houston, weeps in fear and frustration. He’s not alone. Maggie, a 212 pound 12 year-old from Oklahoma, joins him. Wesley, an overweight 13 year-old in Houston, is desperate. But Brandon, 15, a 215 … Continue reading
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