Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: Joaquin commits heart and soul, but “Joker: Folie à Deux” flails

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Joker: Folie à Deux” is a Great American Songbook jukebox musical grafted onto the Grand Guignol of Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s vision of the comic book character. It doesn’t work, doesn’t play and doesn’t coalesce into the Big Message … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mel Gibson and Kids face the horrors of “Monster Summer”

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Canceled” Oscar winner Mel Gibson takes a break from the violent, vengeful B-movies that have kept him busy for a decade for “Monster Summer,” a witchy kiddie horror picture directed by a child actor who grew up on “The Wizards … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “Dark Vibe” home ownership comedy with Kudrow, Romano, Cardellini, Parris and Poppy  and Leary — “No Good Deed”

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Roger Moore

We are…intrigued. Couples vying for the same house with differing agendas but the same “need.” Netflix has this series, premiering Dec. 12.

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Netflixable? Hapless Swede gets in “Trouble” with Criminals, Convicts and Cops in this Comic Thriller

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Roger Moore

A good comic thriller knows how to frustrate the viewer in all the best ways — creating suspense through a collection of close shaves, near misses and moments when the heroine or hero “almost” gets away. A bad comic thriller … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Post Partum Truths, Tears and Laughter through the Tears — “Another Happy Day”

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

In “Another Happy Day,” Lauren Lapkus plays a new mother who knows she’s no good at mothering, a frustrated, sleep-deprived young woman feeling lost and alone until she meets that not-quite-relative who says what she most needs to hear. “I … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Edie Falco’s a Helicopter Mom to her adult kids in “I’ll Be Right There”

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Edie Falco has her best role since “Nurse Jackie” in “I’ll Be Right There,” a dramedy about an over-extended mom still dropping everything for everybody’s else’s needs well past the point she should. Screenwriter Jim Beggarly (“Free Samples,” “A Country … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Nicole Kidman’s a CEO who likes a younger man to call her “Babygirl”

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

A sexy thriller of the “I tell you what to do and you do it” persuasion. An older woman fighting back time with botox, etc., a younger man who gets her attention and then REALLY gets in her head, etc. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Lou Diamond Philips in Bad Guy Beard and  Drawl — “Get Fast”

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

James C. Clayton also stars in this B Movie action pic about robbing from the wrong guys. The shoe and the movie drop Nov. 15.

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Netflixable? Navajo hoops team Overcomes Obstacles on and off the Court — “Rez Ball”

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Rez Ball” is a feel-good sports dramedy tailor-made for teens and tweens. It may be groaningly predictable in its adherence to formula, as most any adult sports film/basketball drama viewer knows what’s coming and when, and can even be bark … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Clint Eastwood directs Kiefer, Collette, Zoey and J.K., with Nicholas Hoult as “Juror #2”

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

Hoult’s on the jury of a trial of a drunk driving case he knows is bogus. Nov. 1.

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