Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: An Oscar-nominated animated “Incredible Journey” from Latvia — “Flow”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Flow” is a futuristic Franco-Latvian fantasy, an animated sci-fi version of Disney’s classic animal odyssey, “The Incredible Journey.” Gints Zilbalodis’ film, an Oscar nominee as Best Animated Feature and as Best International Feature, is a dialogue-free travelogue that follows a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Home Invaders show up with an Agenda — “Everyone Is Going to Die”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Everyone is Going to Die” is a generic home invasion thriller that clumsily struggles with the #MeToo “message” grafted onto it. It opens with the usual “Funny Games/’The ‘Strangers’ franchise” franchise attack, serves up hints that this assault isn’t as … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: High End Horror ensues, because He’s Going to “Bring Her Back”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director Philippou brothers behind “The Babadook” and “Talk to Me” landed Sally Hawkins for the lead in this chiller. A24 has it, and that’s almost all we need to know, right? May 30.

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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs. Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Sexually-attracted StepSiblings in a Rich New Setting — “My Fault: London”

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Argentine-born Sevillian novelist Mercedes Ron has made a pretty good living off her rich-stepsiblings-incest intellectual property, the “Culpables Trilogy” — “Culpa Mia,” “Culpa Tuya” and “Culpa Nuestra,” which translates as “My Fault,” “Your Fault” and “Our Fault.” Being young and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Scatological Parable where Nothing is Wasted — “Okiku and the World (Sekai no Okiku)”

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Attention to detail is one thing we typically celebrate in a cinematic period piece, a movie meant to transport us to a particular corner of the past. But when it comes to the Edo Period Japanese romance “Okiku and the … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Andy Kaufman, you think we “get” him yet? “Thank You Very Much”

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

March 25, a lot of folks who remember, puzzled over and were impressed by Andy K. weigh in.

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Movie Preview: An Intimate and Epic Love Story set against California Horse racing — “On Swift Horses”

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

The land of opportunity, the state of possibilities and “the love that dare not speak its name.” Or “names.” Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle star in this period piece based on a Shannon Pufahl … Continue reading →

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Classic Documentary Review: Essential Herzog, Werner and Klaus Kinski, “My Best Fiend” (1999)

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

In Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” the deluded, forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond lamented a lost and very different era in cinema — silent films. “We didn’t need dialogue,” she bellows. “We had FACES!” It’s a line that comes to … Continue reading →

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