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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Movie Review: Godawful Gal can’t get “The Runner” up to Speed
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
Movie Review: Ryan R. and Kenneth B. gun for “Top Gun” — “Mayday”
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
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
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
Documentary Review: A Classic Film, Controversy, and Wounded Turkish Pride — “Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey”
There was a time when movies could create an international furor that could last for years — decades, even. If you think North Korea’s war on Sony over “The Interview,” racist YA sci-fi fans fuming over the fact that Black … Continue reading
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Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”
Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Coyote vs. Acme” bests “Dog Stars,” “Insidious” slides behind “Odyssey,” “Spider-Man” takes another Weekend
I’m standing at the cineplex Thursday night pondering, “Do I duck into ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ after catching “The Dog Stars,” or do I just wait until those “Idiots” Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. show up? Silly me. While we … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Tony” Bourdain Comes of Age in a Kitchen Bildunsroman
Anybody who’s ever done restaurant work knows that you grow up fast in a kitchen. The speed and urgency, the pressure cooker of it all — people thrown together in hot, confined spaces, trying to work in concert with each … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy with “Idiots”
“Idiots” is a buddy comedy with raunchy promise, funny players and no pace. I mean NONE. If this was “Midnight Run,” which it resembles, it’d be “Midnight Stroll.” If it was “The Last Detail,” which also figures in its plotting, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Ridley’s Believe in it, or Don’t — “The Dog Stars”
“The Dog Stars” is the sort of movie that late August is infamous for — a dog that the studio couldn’t figure out how to fix or market into a success, so they dumped it on Labor Day Weekend. It’s … Continue reading
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