Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Documentary Preview: Damn right Rutger Hauer deserves a Biographical Documentary — “Like Tears in Rain”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Verhoeven and Miranda and Mickey and Robert Rodriguez and D’Onofrio and Whoopi are among those who appreciate the ultimate cinematic cult figure. No Ridley Scott? Dude, make time for a movie like this. The title pays tribute to the best … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Veteran adjusts to Civilian Life with “My Dead Friend Zoe”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Perhaps only an Iraq War combat vet would dare to tackle Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with the sort of sarcasm and gallows humor of “My Dead Friend Zoe.” Director and co-writer and ex-paratrooper Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ film’s title character is a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cupid lets Mexican Couple Break Up in the Past, “With You in the Future (Contigo en el futuro)”

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Mexican romantic fantasy “With You in the Future” pretty much blows the “fantasy” part of its equation. A sentimental “Peggy Sue Got Married/It’s a Wonderful Life” riff with a sprinkling of “Back to the Future,” “Contigo en el futuro” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Nicole Kidman goes “Stepford” again — this time in “Holland”

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

All is not quite what it seems in “Holland” — Michigan. Matthew McFadyen and Gael Garcia Bernal also star in this Mimi Cave (the kinky “Fresh” was hers) comic thiller. March 27 on Amazon Prime.

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Movie Preview: Manic Pixie…Robber Homeless Girl? Luc Besson’s “June & John”

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Action auteur Luc likes his thrillers sexy, and that’s what he hopes to accomplish by pairing Matilda Price and Luke Stanton Eddy in an LA “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” thriller of the “Something Wild” vein. No laughs. No “stars.” Action. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Herzog’s “Cannes Darling” “Woyzek” (1979)

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

The great German director Werner Herzog and his muse, Klaus Kinski, marched through three films together in their peak years, 1978-82. “Nosferatu the Vampyr” was a hit, and “Fitzcarraldo” was a career-defining epic for both director and star, an ordeal … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Hallmarkish charms of “La Dolce Villa”

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

You have to get past the sneaky feeling that the rom-com “La Dolce Villa” wasn’t just conceived and rigidly scripted according to “Hallmark” formula, but by some new AI that the greeting card company rents out to production companies. Find … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Young Hitman is tested by “Old Guy” Christoph Waltz, his Mentor

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hitman thrillers long ago ran out of anything new to do with the genre, lapsing into glib sometime after “La Femme Nikita” back in the ’90s. Nowadays, “glib” isn’t enough. If you’re not aiming for “flippant” like 1974’s “Thunderbolt and … Continue reading →

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Series Review: A Canadian Comic Moves to a Farm — “Tom Green Country”

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Canadian cut-up Tom Green was always an acquired taste. He showed up on the Canadian comedy scene post-“Second City,” a young self-promoting prankster who got “The Tom Green Show” on fringe Canadian TV and then MTV, making a name … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “Braveheart” take on “William Tell”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Connor Swindells, Jonathan Pryce and Sir Ben Kingsley star in this Swiss Myth Movie, which Samuel Goldwyn picked up for distribution in North America.

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