Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: Belgium’s hope for an Oscar nomination? “Julie Keeps Quiet”

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

She wants to become a professional tennis player, so Julie stays focused. She’s a teen, and if wants to continue to train Julie knows she has to keep her eye on the ball, on and off the court. Julie has … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Eric Bana and Sadie Sink are a father and daughter staring down a cult — “A Sacrifice”

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

“A Sacrifice” is a thriller about an American father who is the last to realize that his daughter’s being recruited by a German cult. As Ben Monroe is an expert on “groupthink” and cult behavior, this is humbling. He’s the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “The Strangers” are back — “The Strangers: Chapter 2”

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

This teaser trailer promises a Fundamentalist variation on a theme — at least on the car radio — pursued unto death in the masked murderers tale “The Strangers.” The IMDB page of this Renny Harlin “I’m BACK, baby!” sequel — … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “The Vanishing?” David Schwimmer’s BACK, and in “Goosebumps”

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

Schwimmer tells “Dad Jokes” before going all “Red ROSS” on kids and neighbors over something that happened in the city decades ago. Looks fun, I have to say. Good to see Schwimmer kvetching and kvelling on screen again. Jan. 10, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Was “Caligula” (1976, ’79, 2024) as bad as we remember?

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

No matter how scorned by one generation of film critics and/or filmgoers, once a movie is finished and preserved for all time there’s always a chance of “rediscovery” and reevaluation by film fans of the future. “Lost” films come back … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A TV reporter fakes his way to folk hero status — “The Man Who Loved UFOs”

Posted on October 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

In the 1980s, Argentina became the new epicenter of the UFO conspiracy universe as an intrepid and enterprising TV reporter doggedly pursued and then presented “proof” of a UFO landing in the mountains of rural Argentina. His breathless, credulous reporting … Continue reading →

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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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