Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Parole violators don’t stand a chance against “Officer Black Belt”

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Absurd on its surface and dark hearted to say the least, “Officer Black Belt” is a violent thriller that flirts with being a Korean action comedy. If you can get by the murderers, rapists and many child molesters brought to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: K-horror about a transplant that goes supernaturally, horrifically wrong — “Devils Stay”

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

Dad knows something’s wrong. He’s “hearing” from his dead daughter. And is she “dead,” after all? I mean, he did the heart transplant and all. Where did her heart end up? Dec. 6.

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Movie Review: Colombian Road Warriors smuggle gas, and more — “Pimpinero: Blood and Oil”

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

It begins in a “Road Warrior” hellscape, a desert borderland where gasoline is smuggled in a high stakes game of chicken with the authorities of two countries added to the danger of carelessly transporting an explosively flammable substance. We meet … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jackie Chan gets mixed up in sword and scorcery and…archaelogy — “A Legend”

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

A period piece with a modern scientist mixed up in the lessons the past has to teach the present. Stanley Tong directed this one.

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Movie Review: Spain’s Oscar hopes ride on “Saturn Return (Segundo Premio)” a bio pic of the indie band Los Planetas

Posted on November 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

You don’t have to know the history and love the music of Spanish indie rock icons Los Planetas (“The Planets”) to connect with the new bio-pic about these ’90s fixtures of Spanish “alternative rock.” But it helps. “Saturn Return” is … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Obsessed with hunting “sexual predators” — But who are the “Filthy Animals” here?

Posted on November 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

A favorite obsession of the wingnut right gets its own dark comedy about “punishing” predators, and makes us wonder what sort of person carries around such an obsession. Two “outlaws/predators” set out to hunt accused “predators” on Christmas Eve. Raymond … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Carney, Tomlin, Killings and a Missing Cat — “The Late Show” (1977)

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

The golden age of film noir — cynical, sinister and shadowy thrillers about crime and the unchanging nature of human criminality — was the 1940s and ’50s, when black and white cinema still ruled. The genre never really went away, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Old West Sheriff sees Dead People — “Ghosts of Red Ridge”

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Ghosts of Red Ridge” is a low-budget Western that tries to be a ghost story. It’s not anything to write home about in either genre. There’s some nice lived-in detail in the locations, the dusty, dirty costumes and almost-colorful characters. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Before they were Fab, The Beatles needed to meet “Midas Man”

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

This Brian Epstein bio pic stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan, Eddie Izzard and…Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan. The director did that misguided Eddie Izzard transgender “Doctor Jekyll” of last summer (in the US, 2023 in the UK). “Midas … Continue reading →

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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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