Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Classic Film Review: Baby Brian (De Palma) and Baby Bobby (DeNiro) — “Hi, Mom!” (1970)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brian DePalma’s fourth “experimental” indie feature is a time capsule of New York in decay and political disarray. It’s the movie in which his no budget guerilla filmmaking connected with the zeitgeist, and an audience of the young and the … Continue reading →

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Why Netflix is eating Amazon’s Lunch on Streaming

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix has 280 million subscribers, worldwide. People who pay for Netflix are paying for unlimited access to thousands of movies and series they watch. Amazon Prime, the online retail giant’s answer to Netflix, has 200 million “members” worldwide, but only … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Woman is enslaved by a “Blood Money” debt in Pakistan — “The Window”

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Window” is a brutal and pitiless Pakistani melodrama about primitive practices (mostly) in the provinces, the tradition of marrying women off to pay “blood money” debts. It’s harsh and judgemental enough to be an Indian anti-Pakistani/anti-Muslim propoganda film, but … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Scottish Bay, a Burt and a Baby-Faced Peter Capaldi — “Local Hero” (1983)

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Roger Moore

Oh to make the pilgrimage to Pennan, flying in to Aberdeen, recreating the journey a “Local Hero” makes in perhaps the quaintest, cutest film of that golden age of excess, the ’80s. Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth’s “Gregory’s Girl” announced to … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Polish “Justice” turns Old (Communist) School in this ’90s thriller

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Justice” is a solid if somewhat unsatisfying slow-burn thriller from Poland, a drama set shortly after the country shed Soviet era Russian dominatation. It’s about a heist that went wrong, the pitiless murders that took place when that happened and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Lady wrasslin’ was illegal when she was “Queen of the Ring”

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Roger Moore

Emily Rickards, Josh Lucas and Walton Goggins star in this “true story” from the 1930s, a tale of an early champion in the then-illegal world of women’s wrestling. “Give the audience what they deserve!” March 7, we’ll see if they … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Estranged Father and Son find middle ground at the “Chicken Coop”

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Chicken Coop” is a drab indie dramedy about dogmatic parents, children who left home to escape that and “bonding” over home repair as they fight over literally everything else. Decent acting doesn’t atone for low-stakes drama, low-heat scenes and dated, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,” Murnau invents the Vampire Movie (1922)

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

It has been many years since I had seen the original “Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror,” an “inspired by ‘Dracula’” vampire film that truly invented “the vampire movie” when it came out in 1922. In this historic silent masterwork the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Polish investigator tracks a bloody-minded killer, “Colors of Evil — Red”

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Colors of Evil: Red” is a well-acted, sinister and solidly built Polish serial killer thriller based on a novel by Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak. We follow an intrepid and “new” prosecutor/investigator (Jakub Gieszal) and the judge (Maja Ostaszewskya) whose daughter might … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Mufasa” and “Sonic” wrangle, “Nosferatu” and “A Complete Unknown” make their Holiday Week/Weekend marks

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Lion King” prequel “Mufasa” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” have been battling for box office supremacy since Christmas, with Disney’s latest CGI animated outing having a day by day edge, heading towards a $58 million five day “weekend.” “Sonic … Continue reading →

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