Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Dystopia Shmishtopia, Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and Chris Pratt’s…Hair? “The Electric State”

Posted on October 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

You know what they about sci fi cinema — “Utopia doesn’t sell.” So instead we get another Netflix outing for Netflix Queen Millie Bobby, a dark and cautionary future after what we gather is a fascist “rebellion” that brought civilization … Continue reading →

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Blackfriars, “Merry Wives” as The Bard” might have staged it

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

The American Shakespeare Center’s crown jewel in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Staunton, a theatre designed to mimic Shakespeare’s winter quarters, the perfect place to experience plays as the 17th century punters would have. Intermission at a grand vamp of  … Continue reading →

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Someday, Maybe I’ll get a theater named after me

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Roger Moore
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Movie Review: Dinklage and Brolin as twin “Brothers?” With Glenn Close as their armed robber Mama?

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

Whatever laughs are inherent in a caper comedy pairing up Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin as twin lowlife thieving siblings caught up in “one last job” that involves their thieving mama (Glenn Close), Oscar winners Marisa Tomei and Brendan Fraser, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Anna Kendrick’s dazzling and damning directing debut — “Woman of the Hour”

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

In “Woman of the Hour,” an infamous piece of ’70s serial killer lore becomes a suspenseful and disheartening thriller in the hands of director and star Anna Kendrick. It’s a pre “#BelieveWomen” tale when women were speaking-out and alerting police … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The last word in horror sequels — “Smile 2”

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Smile 2” is a genuinely horrific plunge into terror. Writer-director Parker Finn revives his 2022 creation with a sequel of real ambition. Dude spent a LOT of Paramount’s money on production values for an authentically artistic, high-minded, lowdown and gory … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Canadians go Ghost Busting…again — “Don’t F*#k with Ghosts”

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Kevin Hart produced this Canadian mockumentary, which played Up North and comes to Prime Video on Halloween. Looks cutesy, and sort of mockumentary ish.

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Movie Review: “Found Footage” gives us a glimpse of the witch they call “Beezel”

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

The 60 year witch-haunts-a-house story “Beezel” seems to have been kicked around a bit before Epic got hold of it and gave it a streaming release. That’s a shame, because this creepy, low-budget horror tale certainly passes the “Well, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Serial Killer Thriller with an “on the nose” title — “The Man in the White Van”

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Ali Larter, Madison Wolfe, Sean Astin and Brec Bassinger are the stars of this “true story” of a Florida serial killer NOT named Ted Bundy. “I think he’s following me.” “You have to stop over-exaggerating.” Not often we get that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Keaton reconnects with his kids, including Mila Kunis, as “Goodrich”

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s no heavy lifting in “Goodrich,” the Michael Keaton/Mila Kunis dramedy about a workaholic second-time-around dad forced to reconnect with his kids, including the one old enough to be pregnant. The jokes about trying, after 60, to learn to be … Continue reading →

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