Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Documentary Review: Sate your Bond Appetite with Music — “The Sound of 007”

Posted on May 26, 2026 by Roger Moore

With the overdue annointing of a new James Bond coming any day/week/month or year now, those hunting for a 007 fix can be excused for tapping their watches and glowering at MGM/Amazon, which will be producing and releasing it. Eventually. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Even the most Righteous Revenge has a Cost — “Is God Is”

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Alaesha Harris makes a furious feature film debut with “Is God Is,” an ugly, unblinking slice of African American Gothic horror as relevant as a headline and as timeless as a parable. It’s about two fire-scarred sisters “always on … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Celebrating the NBA Player, Coach and GM — “Jerry West: The Logo”

Posted on May 24, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Jerry West: The Logo” is a glossy updating of the timeworn NFL Films era formula of documentaries celebrating athletes. It’s officially sanctioned, touching on only the uncomfortable corners that its subject — NBA legend Jerry West — approved of. West … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Revolution will be Shoplifted– “I Love Boosters”

Posted on May 23, 2026 by Roger Moore

Capitalism’s end game is taunted and satirized in “I Love Boosters,” a loopy, anarchic comedy about shoplifting, fashion, media mass indoctrination and This Cultural Moment. The latest from the rapper and songwriter turned filmmaker Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”) … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Sally Field and an Octopus each Ponder “Remarkably Bright Creatures” peering through the Glass

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Remarkably Bright Creatures” is a sweet, sentimental and gratingly-cloying tale of a grieving widow who forms a relationship with the ageing Giant Pacific Octopus at the small town aquarium where she’s the cleaning lady. It introduces but never really addresses … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Faith & Family meet in a Vegas Brew Pub — “God & Beer”

Posted on May 19, 2026 by Roger Moore

A dash of Irish twinkle provided by Jared Dalley isn’t enough to recommend “God & Beer,” a drab little faith-based dramedy set in a Las Vegas brew pub, of all places. Flatly-acted, with indifferent direction, amateurish writing, staging , makeup … Continue reading →

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Series Review: “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” takes Derry “Girls” to Dublin and Donegal along the Way

Posted on May 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

Here’s a delighftul weekend’s binge, a daft and darkly comic trip to the Emerald Isle that’s a lot cheaper than flying, with a lot more laughs than you’ll get from wrangling with DHS. “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Fantasia on European History “The Year Before the War”

Posted on May 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

Young Hitler inveighs to any who will listen the evils of meat and the virtues of vegetarianism. The already-famous Freud answers every question with a question with all answers leading to “sex.” Lenin and Trotsky snigger and giggle at the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: This Romantic Corner of Tuscany is “No Place to be Single”

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Roger Moore

“No Place to be Single” is a scenic but featherweight Italian romance set in the most popular region of Italy for film romances — Tuscany. Based on a novel by the prolific Italian romance novelist Felicia Kingsley, it’s got sex … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Twenty Feet Tall and Still Hiding in the Dark — “The Yeti”

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

“The Yeti” is a low-budget creature-feature that’s terrible on pretty much every level. Badly scripted, wootacting, dreadful effects that have that cast brushing fake snowflakes out of their hair and lit like a teenager’s in-mom’s-closet podcast, it’s an abominable waste … Continue reading →

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