Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Troubled Couple’s Children have “Vanished into the Night”

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

The stakes could not be higher in the thriller “Vanished into the Night.” A father, in debt and going through a divorce, loses his children to kidnappers and must reconnect with a hoodlum from his wayward youth to raise the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Kyle Mooney imagines what MIGHT have happened on “Y2K”

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Saturday Night Live” alumnus Mooney and music video director Evan Winter (credited as co-writer here) dreamed up an alt reality where instead of Bill Clinton & Co. planning for and preventing a cyber meltdown of computers on Jan 1, 2000, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Beckinsale’s a CIA agent blackmailed into killing her way to “Canary Black”

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

The main draw of a genre film is the promise of cinematic comfort food. A faintly Byzantine plot, some solid action beats delivered by genre veterans in front of and behind the camera and a few pithy turns of phrase … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Cruise, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning”

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

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Movie Review: Swedes endure the “Stockholm Bloodbath,” and a dark comedy about it

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s revealing that “Stockholm Bloodbath,” the latest film retelling of a grim moment in history that led to Sweden’s independence, premiered in Denmark. The film’s about Swedish suffering, persistence and pluck, and the Danes are the ones who perpetrated the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Kinski and Herzog make each other film immortals — “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972)

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

A legend from history was speculated upon and two legends were made when Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski shot their breakout film, “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” in the jungles of South America with a stolen camera. This low-budget 90-minute … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Argentine half-siblings are “(Un) Lucky Sisters”

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

They blow the “meet cute” in the Argentine action comedy “(Un) Lucky Sisters,” and its pretty much all downhill from there in this short but not remotely brisk tale of two disconnected half-sisters who stumble into their late father’s secret … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ukraine’s long-shot hope for an Oscar — “La Palisiada”

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

Obscure to the point of exasperation, “comic” in ways only its director truly “gets,” “La Palisiada” is one of the more unapproachable films of recent memory. Even accepting that the challenge of making a period piece movie in the middle … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gere and Uma Thurman star on Paul Schrader’s timely “Oh, Canada!”

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

An old man remembers fleeing to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft in this Dec. 6 release from the director of “First Reformed,” “Affliction” and “American Gigolo.” A film of protest and American mythology directed by the author of … Continue reading →

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