Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: “Wicked” girlfriend, you’ve put on an awful lot of weight

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Wicked” moves from the Broadway stage to the cinema, an epic that transitions from “musical” to “intellectual property” in a bloated, lumbering, gear-grinding crash. Whatever Disney or most any other producing studio might have done to this beloved prequel to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: To be Young and Distractingly hot on the Sunny Coast of Italy in the summer — “Partenope”

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

She is a siren, literal or figurative. And the men? They must swoon, because nature or the supernatural has ordained it so. Celeste Dalla Porta has the title role. Gary Oldman’s the geezer who has to pretend he’s not interested … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Black Boy’s Odyssey through the London “Blitz”

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

A single photo in Britain’s Imperial War Museum — a mixed-race child snapped as he joined the sea of children being evacuated from a British city early in World War II — inspired the brilliant writer-director Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Transgender Telenovela with Tunes — “Emilia Pérez”

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Emilia Pérez” is bold and daring musical treatment of subjects most often covered in telenovelas — Mexican soap operas — and in crime series such as “Queen of the South.” It’s about a Mexican cartel boss who decides to change … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Another live action remake nobody asked for…save for the accountants — “How to Train your Dragon”

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

And you thought “Red One” was ill advised.

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Movie Review: Britain’s “Best International Feature” Oscar hope is an Indian Police Procedural — “Santosh”

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

American TV has pretty much beaten to death the police procedural drama thanks to overexposure to the infallible, unimpeachable justice system fantasies of Dick Wolf, the self-righteous heroes of “Blue Bloods” and and the scientist sleuths of “C.S.I.” That’s why … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Oscar contender “Under the Volcano” lets Ukrainians vacation until Russia Invades

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Biden administration had been warning for months that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine. But when it finally happened, Ukrainians, right up to the country’s president, were shocked. Even some of those accepting that it might happen carried on … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” but Hollywood beats him down

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

Real Hollywood folk (Scorsese) mingle with Bryan Cranston, Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara in this send up of the cinema as it exists today.  March 26, Apple TV.

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Movie Review: Coming of Age, “What We Find on the Road”

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

“What We Find on the Road” is a dramatically dull indie roadtrip dramedy that reaches for “coming of age” and strains itself getting there. The film begins with mystery and promise, drifts into predictable and undramatic and doesn’t really rally … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading →

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