Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Santa’s helpers take it off — “The Merry Gentlemen”

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

Netflix’s conquest of “The Hallmark Holiday Movie” as a genre continues with “The Merry Gentlemen,” a snowy tale of Santa season stripping to save the family bar. These movies follow a fairly strict formula, and this one — scripted by … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Rhys Ifans lures Phoebe Dynevor into the family biz — spying — “Inheritance”

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

For anybody who’d been wondering what director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist,” “The Upside,” The Marsh King’s Daughter”) has coming up next (Jan. 24), here it is. “Inheritance” is a thriller about an aimless, grieving alcoholic daughter who’s just lost her … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Whigham and Coon, a Hitman and his “Victim,” may never get to “Lake George”

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

An ex-con is arm-twisted into solving “a little problem that needs to go away” — a mobster’s ex-girlfriend — in “Lake George,” a dark, dry and funny “hit-man” thriller where the “hit-man” keeps insisting “I don’t do that kind of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Finnish Metalheads aim for more face-melting on a “Heavier Trip”

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Well, Hell. Now I’ve got to go back and catch “Heavy Trip,” the Finnish metal band comedy from 2018, the movie that inspired “Heavier Trip.” “Heavy Trip” is on Tubi. Do your homework before catching the sequel in cinemas! It’s … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Looking for Lean Laughs from “Blithe Spirit” (1945)

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

The shifting sands of editor-turned-director David Lean‘s career took him through early adaptations of Noël Coward scripts, included some definitive adaptations of Charles Dickens and eventually settled on the sweeping epics which is he best known for today — “Bridge … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Why make a “live” (CGI) action “Lilo & Stitch?”

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Back in olden times, Disney would re-release its animated classics — in theaters, in new video and digital formats — every few years so that new generations of children could discover as parents who grew up on the films introduced … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Hardnosed Brazilian History Lesson about Surviving Fascism — “I’m Still Here”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

As America abandons the rule of law, the Constitution and common sense in the thrall of a fascist traitor and his Moscow and mob-allied lackeys, the great Walter Salles has just the film to warn the rest of us of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Long live “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

The grand old man of “Wallace” voicing fame, and British TV, before he became a voice-acting icon — Peter Sallis — passed away in 2017 just a few years shy of reaching 100. The Wallace & Gromit filmmakers decided against … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? British doctors invent IVF, facing protests and attacks as they do — “Joy: The Birth of IVF”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Well-cast, well-acted, sentimental and plucky, “Joy: The Birth of IVF” is an encouragingly upbeat account of the labors, trials and attacks endured by the intrepid British team that set out to find “a cure for childlessness.” It’s a story of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pixar’s “Elio” just wants “to be abducted by aliens”

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Hard to get much of a take on what this outer space kids’ adventure will offer. Looks cute. The name choice seems odd, “Elon” odd. But who knows where writer and co-director Adrian Molina’s head was when he was scripting … Continue reading →

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