Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s film of William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

This gay May-October romance is a period piece from the director of “Call Me By Your Name,” a fiction based on Burroughs’ novel and Burroughs lore, set in Mexico City in the ’50s. Craig is the protagonist, Drew Starkey could … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Berkeley Breathed animates a Porcine Pet Bounty Hunter — “Hitpig!”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

Any children’s cartoon built around an armed loner/bounty hunter named “Hitpig!” was always going to be a dubious undertaking. But it was created by longtime “Bloom County” cartoonist Berkely Breathed. So it’s worth pondering. His cracked, kid-friendly (allegedly) vision comes … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Brian Cox is an animated Brit Santa — “That Christmas”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Richard Curtis, Mr. “Four Weddings” and “Love Actually,” wrote this Christmas cartoon for Netflix. So of course Bill Nighy’s in it. Fiona Shaw, Guz Khan, and Rhys Darby also take on a couple of voices. What, no Rowan Atkinson? For … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “The Killing Fields” (1984) at 40, Adventure, Heart and Horror in a High-Minded Epic

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Some classic films can overwhelm you with the memories of when you saw them, of the era that created them and of the stars who gained their immortality in filming them. “The Killing Fields” came out fresh enough on the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

This doc, narrated by Bogie’s son, comes close on the heels of a recent Bogie/Bacall biography I read and reviewed and promises an equally “intimate” portrait — using home movies, old interviews, etc. Doesn’t appear all that deep and polished, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” celebrates a photographer who captured Apartheid as it Happened

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Ernest Cole worked in South Africa, a little known photographer whose photos were seen the world over as blunt black and white documentation of Black life under Apartheid. Maybe there’s a shot or two of Elon, Peter Thiel and other … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A woman pursued by a serial killer, and paralyzed — “Don’t Move”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Two things you can say for the Sam Raimi-produced thriller “Don’t Move” is that it sprints by — thrillers on the move have to — and that it’s part of a sub-genre that has proven a goldmine in decades past … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ralph Fiennes tries to Herd Back-Stabbing Archbishops through a Papal “Conclave”

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

A pope dies and over 100 of his archbishops gather to politic, poor-mouth, backbite and backstab their way towards electing another in “Conclave,” a deliciously dark, well-acted and beautifully-filmed inside-Vatican-intrigues thriller. Director Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front”), … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Actress fights cancer, heartbreak and career setbacks, including “Your Monster”

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

What manner of miscalculated meshuggagh mashup is this? “Your Monster” is a “personal demons” rom-com take on “Beauty and the Beast,” one with the beast willing to offer to “eat” the creep who jilted fair Laura when she was diagnosed … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Little Boys on the Run “Beyond the Wasteland” of Macedonia

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

The child of about nine lives with his father in the forest, hidden from “the evil outside” world, off-the-grid, with hints that there might be no grid left. They hunt and forage, set traps and makeshift alarms and hole-up in … Continue reading →

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