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July 4 Movies — “Tammy” and “Evil” take a beating, “Echo” gets a “meh”

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

This July 4 holiday won’t do much — quality-wise — to reverse the 16% drop in the box office, year to year, that June gave us. The critically derided “Transformers 4” will probably win at the box office, unless millions … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Deliver Us From Evil”

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

　 “Deliver Us from Evil” takes a very long time to deliver us from dullness. This demonic possession police procedural only gets good and wound up for its third act exorcism.That’s when Edgar Ramirez, as a chain-smoking, whisky loving Jesuit … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dinesh D’Souza tells “America” what’s wrong with it, again

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

It takes 90 minutes for Dinesh D’Souza’s rambling, mistitled “America: Imagine the World Without Her,” to get to its REAL point. There’s D’Souza, arch-conservative Ivy League immigrant, creator of the popular anti-Obama screed “2016: Obama’s America,” in handcuffs. “I made … Continue reading →

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Steve James and Chaz Ebert talk about Roger Ebert and “Life Itself”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Roger Moore

He could be generous and petty, competitive and nurturing, absurdly public and ferociously private.And given access to a soap box, you could be sure Roger Ebert would scramble on top of it. Quite aside from being America’s most famous film … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Tammy” goes all soft and gooey

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Roger Moore

Say this for Melissa McCarthy. A couple of years into her stardom, and not all that far past the dust-up over critics’ deriding her comic reliance on the sight gag that is her physique, she puts it all out there … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Heatstroke”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Roger Moore

A veteran cast not given to overplaying, a competent director and striking desert Africa settings are the chief recommendations of “Heatstroke,” a survival thriller with murder, poaching, gun-running and hyenas as its active ingredients.Paul, a hyena expert (Stephen Dorff) reluctantly … Continue reading →

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“Snowpiercer” is a veritable United Nations of sci-fi films. Directed by the Korean Bong Joon-Ho (“The Host”), based on a French graphic novel and with a cast built around Captain America (Chris Evans), Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Jamie … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Earth to Echo” is an “E.T.” knockoff that works

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Roger Moore

“Earth to Echo” is an engagingly unassuming “E.T.” knockoff, a kids’ movie that serves up a similar alien-with-kids story in “Blair Witch/Paranormal” shaky cam package. It’s been over 30 years since “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” so why not? Disney produced it, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ebert documentary equates a love of movies with a love of “Life Itself”

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Roger Moore

There’s a lovely sentiment that the late movie critic Roger Ebert expressed when describing what movies were to him and why this medium that he spent his life covering still mattered.“The movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” A … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Spanish period piece shows that “Living is Easy With Eyes Closed”

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Roger Moore

Antonio is a balding, 40ish English teacher in 1960s Spain. Franco and his fascists are still in power, and the burden of that oppressive rule is felt throughout the culture — nuns quick to slap students at his school, quicker … Continue reading →

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