Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: An outbreak, a “Thing is spreading,” and Liam Neeson’s here to help put it in “Cold Storage”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

Getting strong “The Stand” and “Andromeda Strain” with a splattery comic edge from this trailer. Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery co-star in this star screenwriter David Koepp (“Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Ghost Town,” “Indiana Jones/Dial of Destiny”) project. Feb. 13.

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Movie Preview: Timing? “The Devil Wears Prada 2”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

A sequel to the 2006 film based on a novel even further from a different era, with everybody involved 20 years older, seems kind of…made for streaming. But when you’ve got Streep, Hathaway, Blunt and Tucci on board, there’s nothing … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Sam Rockwell is “FROM THE FUTURE!” — “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

A week doesn’t go by when I don’t dial hop past some “Pirates of the Caribbean” telecast and wonder “Whatever happened to Gore Verbinski? The dude directed “Mouse Hunt,” “The Mexican,” “The Ring” and “The Weather Man” before selling his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Exiled Man and Woman wrestle with their Pasts on “The Silent Planet”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Silent Planet” is a sci-fi allegory that attempts to take the pulse of the human condition in our current, fear-immigrants moment and doesn’t quite come off. One can appreciate the cleverness of seeing The Tablelands in Canada’s Gros Morne … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Zooey and Charlie Cox break up, but “Merv” the dog isn’t having it

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Zooey Deschanel and “Daredevil” Charlie Cox star in an old-fashioned/new fashioned romance of the sort that Deschanel used to excel in. They play a couple splitting up, with a dog who isn’t taking it well. He needs a trip to … Continue reading →

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Book Review — “The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspirations Behind the Iconic Films”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

This fall’s North American box office success of such anime franchises as “Chainsaw Man” and “Demon Slayer” and the vast collection of such titles on offer from Netflix underscore the soaring popularity and international appeal of the Japanese animated art … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Dog Eat Dog/Winner Take All Job Market leaves Him with “No Other Choice”

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

This festival darling, the latest from Park Chan Wook (“Old Boy”) has echoes of the Michael Caine dark comedy about (literal) cutthroat corporate life, “A Shock to the System.” Long term unemployment means you’ve got to do something to better … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Joel Edgerton can’t stop boys from bullying boys — “The Plague”

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Terrible twos” and teens have nothing on Tweens when it comes to imagininative cruelty, shunning and making you question what you know and who you think you are. This Dec. 24 release wears lots of newfound labels — “body horror” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is Gothic horror rendered in the grandest strokes. The expansive, baroque settings are grandeur incarnate, with grandiose performances pitched to fill every pixel of the Grand Guignol frame that the scarlet, grey and gloomy green backdrops … Continue reading →

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Movie Previews: So how “real” will Fuqua’s “Michael” Jackson bio pic or Netflix’s “King of Pop” get?

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Seems like this would be the most challenging music biopic of them all to keep honest for a  deep dive. An NPR program a few years back tackled the subject of Michael Jackson and why Black people have been disinclined … Continue reading →

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