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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Documentary Review: “Oscar shoo-in,” “Generational Masterpiece,” “You Can See Everything?”
I trust that there is no financial or ethical penalty for having little urge to rush out and see a mini-series length docu-drama/”documentary” on Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos huckster and Millennial villain du jour. The “You Can See Everything” hype … Continue reading
Movie Review: Beware What Lies in Wait in “Wildwood”
A grab bag of themes and tropes of fantasy fiction are brought into play in the wildly ambitious “Wildwood,” the latest stop-motion animated marvel from Laika Studios, the folks who gave us “Coraline” and “ParaNorman.” It’s another tale of a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Couples Weekend”
A good cast giving it their all is the best recommendation of “Couples Weekend,” an otherwise “serviceable” relationship comedy with dark undertones. Actress (“The Office,””Shrinking”) turned TV director Nora Kirkpatrick makes her feature writing and directing debut with a four-hander … Continue reading
Documentary Review — Remembering “SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of”
It wasn’t “live TV” comedy. The cast was, to a one, contemporaries of the Americans and Canadians in the first cast of “Saturday Night Live.” But “SCTV” came on years later, and was sporadically on the air years after the … Continue reading
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Tagged canadian-tv, comedy, monty-python, movies, netflix, sctv, snl, television, tv, writing
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BOX OFFICE: “Clayface” and “You Can See Everything” fight for 1st, “Wicker” cracks Top 5, “Hunger Games” Awaits
It’s Halloween Weekend, the calm before the “Hunger Games” storm. So who’s going to the movies? Not a lot of us, it turns out. But that makes it a great weekend to catch up on titles we’ve missed, pearls that … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A “Wicker” Skarsgård is Catnip to the Ladies in this Sex-Farce Fable from Jolly Olde
“Wicker” is a satiric sex farce that teeters by on a tightrope, never quite tumbling into hilarity but often swooning and even scoring bawdy laughs spun out of the ludicrous, fairytale situations and “Sex Habits of the Elizabethans” setting. The … Continue reading
Movie Review: Turturro Broods and Schemes as “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York”
The one thing that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the sober-minded thriller “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” is the suspense over how good the finale will be. Because so much that’s preceded it — … Continue reading
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Tagged giancarlo-esposito, john-turturro, noah-segan, Reviews, steve-buscemi
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Patrick Stewart: 1940-2026, Eight Decades of Pure Class
Who didn’t live this guy? Patrick Stewart classed up everything he showed up in, on the stage and on screens big and small. He made small screens large just with his presence and movies feel important, even when they weren’t. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Awakening,” a “Predator” knock-off you can Nap Through
Four different guys are credited with writing and directing “The Awakening,” a vengeful nature spirit takes its revenge thriller from Colombia. Man, the video village on that set must’ve been…entertaining. Just judging from the finished film, y’understand. It’s a “Predator” … Continue reading
Series Review: “The One About Matthew Perry”
Here’s how somebody who’s written about pop culture for a long time might react to that first realization that Netflix has told Matthew Perry’s life story in three parts for a three hour+ long series. Perry? One hit TV show, … Continue reading
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