Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Guy Pearce helps Cosmo Jarvis survive and cope with an Aussie Prison — “Inside”

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s a contemplative vibe to this standard-issue “got a contract on’em” view of the tedium and violence of life behind bars. Sins admitted, committed and maybe even atoned for. Pearce is having another “moment” thanks to this and “The Brutalist.” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Cleopatra Coleman and Haley Joel Osment, “Not an Artist”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Rosalind Chao, RZA (Now going by Bobby Diggs?), Matt Walsh, Lauren Knutti and Mr. HR from “The Office” (Paul Lieberstein) are also in the cast of this indie comedy about an artists’ retreat/boot-camp where they are coached into overcoming…creative blocks?

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Movie Review: When the End Comes, Survivalists rally around “Homestead”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

By turns paranoid and pollyanna-ish, “Homestead” is a conservative Christian survivalist wish fulfillment fantasy about living through “The End.” The studio that brought us the controversial “Sound of Freedom” serves up an almost bipolar picture packed with MAGA virtue signaling … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Iraq Combat at its most intense, in a film by a combat vet and the director of “Civil War” — “Warfare”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

This 2025 “real time” thriller takes us into Iraqi combat “as remembered” by writer and co-star Ray Mendoza. Does it look more intense than the many Iraq War grunts-eye-view thrillers that preceded it, or even appreciable different from “American Sniper,” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Megan Fox, robotic in her “Subservience”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Saying Megan Fox is well cast as a robotic household “helper” in “Subservience” seems kind of mean. And one really should avoid using the phrase “human sex doll” in describing her role here, or her screen career in general. “Subservience” … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Phil Collins, a pop star in winter, “Drummer First”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

OK, not your normal platform — Drumeo, a drum-centric site selling lessons, etc. is offering this. Not sure why that is (probably not a feature length doc). But in the ’80s and ’90s, Collins was as omnipresent as any balding … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Woodward, Coskas and Voight, heroes and villains reincarnated through time — “Man With No Past”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

Adam Woodward’s the little-known British lead in this thriller, about deja vu dealings with the monsters you’ve been confronting in life after life through the past — Romans to Nazis to modern day MAGA Jon Voight. On the nose casting, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ski Country Schemes –Art Theft, Cheating, and Murder — “Black Diamond”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

A young, good looking but unknown cast — Inbar Lavi, Jake McLaughlin and Ray Panthaki among the ranks — hedge fund bros and a Miro’ painting figure in this Jan 10 thriller from Judd Bloch.

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Documentary Preview: You remember Led Zeppelin, but “Dread Zeppelin: A Song of Hope?”

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

Tortelvis leading a reggae Led Zep “cover band.” Good musicians. Good comedians. You hear’em, you can’t UNhear their way with a classic rock tune. You see’em, you never forget’em. I interviewed Tortelvis once upon a time. If Led Zepellin has … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Spanish feminist fights sexism and fascism — “The Red Virgin (La virgen roja)”

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Roger Moore

Groomed for greatness, a writing, philosophizing prodigy by her teens and a young woman nearly 100 years ahead of her time, Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was long a forgotten heroine of the Spanish Civil War. That’s how “history” is erased by … Continue reading →

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