Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: A Big Mistake means a future full of “Reminders of Him”

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

This romantic weeper is based on a Colleen Hoover (“This Ends with Us”) novel and Maika Monrue and Tyriq Withers star in it, with Lauren Graham and Bradley Whitford. In theaters March 13.

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Netflixable? “Expert” must Solve a Mystery in under “27 Nights”

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

The orderlies who have shown up at the posh townhouse have a question. “Is she aware of what’s happening?” The two daughters waffle and deflect, with one more certain of the decision than the other. She’s the one who figures … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An “Anniversary” that Democracy Shouldn’t Celebrate, but Dread

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Critics — the thinking ones anyway — have been wearing out the phrase “a movie of its moment” these past couple of years. A leader out to tear the country to pieces surfed a tidal wave of oligarch money, ignorance … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bard and Bride lose a Little Boy and a Masterpiece is Inspired —  “Hamnet”

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in this prestige picture/ awards bait from director Chloe Zhao and historical novelist Maggie O’Farrell. Dec. 12.

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Movie Preview: “Nuremberg,” the final British trailer

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Rami and Shannon and Slattery and Russell Freaking Crowe as Hermann Goerring in an Oscar bait Oscar winner studded reminder of what we do to fascists. 

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Movie Review: Louis Mandylor commits another War (Movie) Atrocity — “Prisoner of War”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Coming of Age in a Slovenian Catholic School — “Little Trouble Girls”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Urška Djukić’s debut feature is about 16 year olds learning about life and love and sex and what not. Looks lovely. And altogether artier than “Catholic Schoolgirls in Trouble,” a trailer you might remember from “Kentucky Fried Movie” from … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Twee Brit Romance with a Bittersweet Taste, “The Ballad of Wallis Island”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ever so slight and so very, very British, “The Ballad of Wallis Island” passes the time like reading P.G. Wodehouse with a cup of Earl Grey on a rainy autumn afternoon. A couple of supporting players from British TV cooked … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: The “Mr. Scorsese” Saga in Five Parts

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Film buffs idolize him. Film students long to become him. His fellow filmmakers emulate him. Actors long to work with him. And film journalists relish the chance to bask in his presence and find something to ask or say to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Merrily We Roll Along” Sondheim Song and Dances its way onto screen

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

A filmed stage musical that benefits from casting Daniel Radcliffe as one of the leads, this beloved Stephen Sondheim musical finally earns a big screen release from Sony Pictures Classics and Fathom Entertainment just in time for the holidays (Dec. … Continue reading →

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