Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review — “Wicked: For Good” does Dorothy Wrong

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I said at the start that turning “Wicked” the musical into a two-part big screen epic was a mistake. Just how big a mistake is obvious as this bloated beast staggers to the end of the Yellow Brick Road in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Sisu: Road to Revenge” takes a Wrong Turn or Three

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I am an audience of one at a late afternoon “preview” matinee of “Sisu 2,” aka “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” the sequel to the savage sleeper hit by Finnish carnage Jalmari Helander. Do the locals know something I don’t? Or … Continue reading →

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Movie Marathon Thursday, “Wicked for Good,” “Rental Family” and “Sisu 2: Finno-Russian Boogaloo”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Erivo, Arianna and Goldblum again, Brendan F speaking Japanese and Stephen Lang as a Russian trying to kill an unkillable Finn. Again. A few more songs, some curious corners of Japanese culture and dead Russians by the dozen. A pretty … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A New Yorker widowed by a Police Shooting seeks Justice in “Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

An infamous police shooting leads to trials and a search for justice that doesn’t end in a courtroom in “Aftershock” The Nicole P. Bell Story.” It’s a sturdy, often moving fil built aroud Rayven Symone Ferrell’s affecting performance in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the “Playdate” from Hell

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The most violent children’s entertainment since “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Kevin James, features Isla Fisher as leader of a hard-drinking “gang” of soccer moms and gives the inventive character player Alan Tudyck his best shot at impersonating and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Australia’s Oscar hopes rely on Mongolians who know “The Wolves Always Come at Night”

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Wolves Always Come at Night” is an evocative immersion in a dying way of life, that of nomadic Mongolian goat, horse and cattle herders. Gabrielle Brady’s documentary captures the stark beauty of the treeless brownscape of the Mongolian steppes, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Her Fiancee is Murdered by Cops at his Bachelor party — “Aftershock — The Nicole P. Bell Story”

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Rayven Ferrell, Bentley Green, Richard Lawson, Kevin Jackson, and Richard T. Jones star in this damning true story about trigger happy, out-of-control policing. “Aftershock” hits cinemas Nov. 28 and streaming Dec. 15.

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Movie Review: A Mother’s Past and Present Blur “When Fall is Coming”

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

François Ozon has to be the French cinema’s premier poker player. With his genre-bending/expectations-upending dramas (“Everything Went Fine”), dramedies (“In the House”), feminist comedies (“Potiche”) and musical drama mysteries (“8 Women”), you’d hate to be seated at the same table … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Romance? All it takes is “You, Me & Tuscany”

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Universal is so underwhelmed by the cast of this spring rom-com that they don’t list any of their names in the first trailer for it. That’s “Little Mermaid” Halle Bailey and “Bridgerton” hunk Regé-Jean Page as the meet-by-accident, lies and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Aussie Recruits face a “Beast of War” before they ever face Combat

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Beast of War” sets up as a fine if not wholly novel approach to the WWII combat “grunts” journey long before it settles into its true destiny — a shark attack tale. Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner trots through the tropes of … Continue reading →

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