Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Classic Film Review: Accept no Substititute for this Suspsense Masterpiece — “The Wages of Fear” (1953)

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

Stanley Kubrick was among the most famous filmmakers to assert that if you can’t tell what’s happening in a film — the emotions and motivations of the characters and the point of it all — with the sound turned off, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wild West Dinklage chases Juliette Lewis into “The Thicket”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Thicket” is a Western built on archetyepal characters pursuing one another through a forbidding and unforgiving archetypal Western landscape. It’s a wintry fin de siècle “manhunt” for a young woman, and another woman gang-leader named Cut Throat Bill who … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “Cupid Killer” thriller for Valentine’s Day — “Heart Eyes”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Producers associated with the “Scream” franchise are behind this surviving Valentine’s Day/surviving a serial killer thriller. Jordana Brewster stars. Olivia Holt is another “name” in it. Devon Sawa and Mason Gooding also star. Those “producers,” the screenwriters and actor turned … Continue reading →

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A Snow Day is always a movie day, but not to a Cocker Spaniel

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Cocker never forgets her first snowfall. “Tell me more about this ‘Iditarod’ of your Alaska days, Dad. Where do I sign up?”

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Netflixable? WWII Underground Agent “Number 24 (Nr. 24)” tells kids what’s called for when you Fight Fascism

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the smartest places Netflix has put its international production money is Scandivanian World War II films. A collection of true or “inspired by” true stories have shown us forgotten heroics, sacrifice, treachery and air raids that went wrong. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make Yourself Famous, try to be a “Better Man” and not a Pop Star Cliché

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever he means to other parts of the world — his UK homeland in particular — the pop star Robbie Williams falls somewhere on the “Remember him?” to “Who?” sliding scale here in the U.S. So maybe the idea of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: More heists, more Butler and Jackson — “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera”

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

One hesitates to ever use the phrase “lazy” in describing the epic enterprise that is the making of any major motion picture. But the temptation is there in describing writer-director Christian Gudegast’s reunion with Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Sophie Thatcher is a robotic AI “Companion” to die for

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

The people who brought us “Barbarian” are behind this twisted and bloody thriller, co-starring Jack Quaid and Harvey Guillén. Jan 31

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Movie Preview: Jason Statham is “A Working Man” with “particular skills”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Statham is out to right a wrong done to his pal Michael Pena in this variation on a “Beekeeper” theme. Any idea who or what this construction worker actually is? March 28.

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Movie Preview: Horror comes not just to the leading lady, but to the “Bystanders”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Murderously misogynistic teen bros come for the “wrong” teen girls? That’s what I’m picking up from the “Bystanders” trailer. This one made the round of the horror film fest circuit and drops on streaming Jan. 21.

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