Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Documentary Review: An Italian who inspired Tarantino, “Piero Vivarelli: Life as a B-Movie”

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Piero Vivarelli was an Italian B-movie filmmaker, a “genre” director who dabbled in several genres, most famous (at home) for his musicarello pop and rock movies of the 60s. If you’ve never heard of Rita Pavone, Tony Renis, Mina and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Blaxploitation has its Biggest Afro Yet — Shaina West is “Jade”

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Two fisted, two-footed, machete-and-pistol-packing Brit Mama “Jade” never backs down from a fight. Especially when she’s caught between rivals — a gangster and a businessman, one of them played by Mickey Rourke. Shaina West is a stunt woman turned action … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Jamie and Cameron skylark through “Back in Action”

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

An absurd script is navigated with brio and professionalism in the “Back in Action” comedy. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz summon up their old school cool and comical chemistry (“Annie”), Glenn Close trots out an accent and the quips and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: James Joyce by John Huston, “The Dead”(1987)

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

You don’t have to get old to truly appreciate John Huston’s elegiac ode to Belle Epoque Ireland and his farewell to the cinema. Wintry, wistful, funereal and poetic, James Joyce’s “The Dead” becomes a simple, short and beautiful postcard from … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Amy Schumer and Jillian Bell, which one is “Kinda Pregnant?”

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Good to see Schumer back. Has she, uh, mellowed? Does parenthood cure “Trainwreck?” Feb. 5

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Movie Review: Colman Domingo plays an inmate with theatre in his blood at “Sing Sing”

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Colman Domingo and the humanizing act of making theatre co-star in “Sing Sing,” a sometimes moving and often entertaining dramedy about prison inmates who just want to “put on a show.” Domingo and a couple of other professional actors, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Tragic, Scandalous and Recent History Remembered — “Nickel Boys”

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

In “Nickel Boys,” first-time feature director RaMell Ross almost overwhelms performance with technique. Characters are obscured, faces hidden, glimpsed from the legs down to their shoes, passing by in the blur of memory. By the time we set our eyes … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Awards contending “The Brutalist” punches above its weight

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Brutalist” is a brutally smart drama for a brutally stupid age. Brady Corbet’s American saga touches on everything from classism and racism to anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as its hero staggers along the jagged edge of American capitalism as … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: It’s Bombs Away for MLK Day as toothless “Wolf Man” and “One of Them Days” has One of Them Weekends

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

I felt as if I could test the echoing accoustics of my local multipex Thursday evening when I went to see and review “Wolf Man” and “One of Them Days” (and “The Room Next Door”). The cinema was that empty. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan sing “The Ballad of Wallis Island”

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Tim Key plays an eccentric lottery winner who pays to drag his favorite singer to the literal middle of nowhere. Basden plays the singer, Mulligan plays another famous singer who used to be his partner? Wife? Lover? Seeing conflicting release … Continue reading →

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