Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? “Girl Haunts Boy,” a teen romance for tweens

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Here’s an exceptionally mild-mannered Netflix teen romance built around a couple of cute young leads made “stars” by earlier Netflix outings. Peyton List (“Kobra Kai”) plays a flapper teen who swipes a magic ring and dies in 1928, only to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Tale Trapped at “The Crossroads,” Never Going Anywhere

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Crossroads” is the sort of movie you get when you park two attractive but bland young actors on a modestly scenic piece of real estate and take romance pretty much off the table. A stunningly dull chat-a-thon of silences, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Danny Kaye goes Marxist as “The Inspector General” (1949)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

How might a moviegoer in 1949 have responded to Danny Kaye in the musical version of Gogol’s “The Inspector General?” Watching it anew, my hot take is “It’s a Marx Bros. musical with Kaye trying to play all four Marx … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering Pete Seeger through “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Casual fans will be blown away and even hardcore ones impressed by the uncanny musical impersonations that James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” Bob Dylan biography is built upon. Timothee Chalamet‘s utter channeling of Babyfaced Bob, the early years, getting the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mufasa,” everything we didn’t need to know about “The Lion King”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

The CGI animated savannahs, rivers and rock formations of Africa are photo-real, and the animals populating it have never been more realistically rendered than they are in “Mufasa: The Lion King.” Disney felt the need to have the lions, warthog … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Mufasa” is “Lion King” of Christmas, but “Nosferatu” drinks a bit of that BO blood

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Indifferent reviews and a weaker-than-expected blowout opening weekend might have written Disney’s latest “Lion King” riff off. But “Mufasa: The Lion King” reminded us you never bet against Disney over the holidays. It won Christmas Day and has momentum going … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ladyboss has a taste for being dominated — “Babygirl”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Dutch actress-turned-director Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” is an icy, clinical inversion of our idea of masochism and “abuse of power” in the workplace. The director of “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” sets up Nicole Kidman as a “woman on top” at the office, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Robert Eggers’ “Christmas Carol” with fangs — “Nosferatu”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

With just a handful of films, Robert Eggers has established himself as the Merchant/Ivory, Powell and Pressburger of horror. The writer, director and most tellingly production designer of “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman” creates exquisitely detailed lithographic prints … Continue reading →

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The Best Christmas Day for Movies in a Generation — What are you going to see?

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

So many movies already open, opening or opening in limited release this Christmas. The fact that you don’t have to limit yourself to a “Sonic,”“Gladiator” or “Moana” sequel, a musical suffering from elephantiasis or a “Lion King” prequel should be … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bob the Bard in Epic strokes, Dylan as “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Boyd Holbrook’s Johnny Cash out-cools, out-swaggers and out hell-raises future Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan in Dylan’s own biopic. I wonder if “A Complete Unknown” director James Mangold ever winced and muttered “Damn” about who he originally cast to star … Continue reading →

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