Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Classic Film Review: Hopkins is “The Efficiency Expert,” but are Crowe, Collette and Mendelsohn getting the ax? (1991)

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Three future stars from Down Under pop off the screen in “The Efficiency Expert,” a delicate, dated and yet timeless fish-out-of-water period piece set in Australia at the birth of the job-cutting “consultant” boom. Toni Collette, impressive and emotional in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Locksmith lives to Regret Taking that One “Night Call”

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

I’m of two minds about that subgenre we call the hero/heroine with “particular skills” thriller. The parade of Liam Neeson/Jason Statham/John Cena et al action pictures where this mobster, that rogue government or rogue government agency or creepy neighbor crosses … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A cuppa “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” if you please

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well cor blimey and “butter me crumpets,” Wallace & Gromit are back. Britain’s most adorable exports since the Minis — the Cooper and the Skirt — are back for another twee stop-motion animated farce that reminds us of how much … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bad times on a Wisconsin farm — Can the Packers save it? “Green and Gold”

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Irony is dead in “conservative” virtue signalling cinema like this Craig T. Nelson (Don’t get me started.) star vehicle. Bank’s about to take his farm. Banker offers to bet on Green Bay’s lone tourist attraction to give him time, and it … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Kristen Stewart, Steven Yeun, after the apocalypse — “Love Me”

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Can an ocean-monitoring buoy and a satellite find “love?” Via, we assume, their avatars? This trippy, existential sci fi romance from the Zuchero Brothers comes out just before Valentine’s Day. Jan. 31.

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Movie Preview: Griffin Dunne, James Norton, Rosanna Arquette and Richard Benjamin — “Ex Husbands”

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Griffin Dunne plays winds up crashing a vacation bachelor party his sons are attending, He’s splitting up from Rosanna A., his dad (Richard Benjamin) is splitting from his latest. And one of his sons (Norton) is breaking up. Greenwich Entertainment … Continue reading →

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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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