Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Remember camp? “Hell of a Summer”

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

An R-rated Red Band trailer for an anarchic, no-holds-barred sex-among-the-summer-camp-staff training session that turns into a freaking “Friday the 13th” slasher comedy. Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk co-wrote it and star in “Hell of a Summer,” headlining a cast of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Dad” lost interest, But John Leguizamo might step in because “Bob Trevino Likes It”

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Barbie Ferreira stars in this feel-film film festival darling about parenting’s lifelong commitment, the sort of guys who bail (French Stewart) and the sort of man (played by Leguizamo) who has it in his heart to step up. Roadside Attractions … Continue reading →

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That first time Sly and the Family Stone wowed “The Ed Sullivan Show”

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

I’ve watched the upcoming Hulu documentary about Sly Stone and the “Burden of Black Genius,” another dazzling Black Music History by Questlove, loved it and hope to get a review up in the next few days. It premieres Feb. 13. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: This time, Dreyfuss is the Old Salt giving advice to those heading “Into the Deep”

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Into the Deep?” Well, “Jaws” it’s not. Entirely too shallow for “The Deep,” too. But Richard Dreyfuss is in it, the “Jaws” alumnus who’s lived to play the sage of the sea role in this B-almost-C picture about gun smugglers, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Damned” Fishermen face Consequences for their Cruelest Mistake

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Damned” is a thriller built on one of the oldest formulas in fiction. First, there are many, as Dame Agatha taught us, “And Then There were None.” Ah, but what a setting this 19th century fable has — the … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “Sly Lives! Aka the Burden of Black Genius”

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

A singular pop/funk presence on American radio of the ’60s and early ’70s, rock historians fan and wide have long declared the genius of Sly Stone and the tunes he and his musical “family” brought to the world. Now Hulu’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: House isn’t a home when it’s haunted by a ghostly “Presence”

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s just a haunted house story, just a movie with objects that move and things that go bump in the night. Well, mostly in broad daylight. “Presence” is a “A Ghost Story” filmed like a “Paranormal Activity” installment. And it’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dockery figures out Grace and Wahlberg are each a “Flight Risk”

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was never any doubt that, “canceled-“or-uncanceled, Mel Gibson has skills as a director. He knows how to cast, block, shoot and edit a thriller, be it historic or generically modern. But what we’ve allowed ourselves to question during his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bisset still has her shimmer in “Loren & Rose”

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A screen legend gives better than a lackluster indie script deserves in “Loren & Rose,” a movie about a movie-maker befriending a once-famous actress he needs to get his new movie made. Maybe there’s a bit of art-imitates-film-life in this … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: A UFO/UAP “Aliens” doc that promises the Moon — “The Age of Disclosure”

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A collection of (somewhat) more credible experts and officials than is usual for such docs — and Marco Rubio — tell us these “something is out there” phenomena are about to be proclaimed The Real Deal. Officially? March 25, this … Continue reading →

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