Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Skarsgard, Pacino and Colman Domingo in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

A “Dog Day Afternoon” true story/period piece about a hostage situation with political and predatory lending overtones. With that cast, I don’t see how this Jan. 9 release can go wrong.

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Movie Preview: A24 Gets in the Glen Powell Business — “How to Make a Killing”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

This February release looks more dark than comic, which its “Kind Hearts and Coronets” set up might have promised. Guys want to inherit a fortune but he has relatives to kill off to get it. Bill Camp, Margaret Qualley, Topher … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: One of Udo Kier’s final roles — “My Neighbor Adolf” — hits cinemas in January

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The great German character actor Udo Kier died last weekend in Palm Springs, where many of the movie famous (Liberace to John Schlesinger to Janet Gaynor to Alan Ladd to Howard Hawks to Darryl F. Zanuck) end their days. He … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pierce, Helena and Gabriel ensure a Young Irish Couple Receives “Four Letters of Love”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne appear on screen together for the first time in “Four Letters of Love,” a lovely, sentimental and ever-so-Irish romance about fate, faith and the power of words to woo, especially when folded … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Horror Icon revisits His Many Touchstones — “Sangre del Toro”

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Guillermo del Toro is not just the fanboy’s fanboy, a comic book collector (“Horror comics, mostly.”) turned Oscar winning horror director. He rivals his idol David Cronenberg as the reigning intellectual of his genre, a thoughtful, philosophical Mexican who knows … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “After the Hunt” prematurely looks at #MeToo and Cancel Culture in the Rear View Mirror

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“After the Hunt” re-litigates the #MeToo/Cancel Culture wars and muddies the waters about what has and is being achieved by this latest rift along the gender and generation gaps. It’s only mildly provocative and not at all satisfying. But it’s … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “When We Went MAD'” for a Humor Magazine

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

It was more obvious 40 years ago, but we in America live in a MAD culture, a land of mockery, parody and running gags aimed at the institutions, pop trends, entertainment and “Americana” that we once thought of as “sacred … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gael Garcia Bernal, “Magellan”

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

This Lav Diaz film is the Philippines’ entry on the Best International Feature Oscar race. Epic, but hardly old fashioned, on the way it treats the “cost” of “discovery” and conquest

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Movie Preview: An action pic about Mercenaries in Africa that’s titled “Lost Horizon?”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mercenaries trying to carry out a rescue of some sort in the middle of an African civil war. Sounds a lot like a Christopher Walken outing from the ’80s, “Dogs of War.” The title “Lost Horizon” has been emblazened on … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Life Lived with Loss and a Search for meaning — “Train Dreams”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Train Dreams” is a forlorn folk ballad with pretensions of being a tone poem. This downboat but picturesque saga of one man’s life during the lumbering-mad early years of the 20th century is both intimate and remote. We see a … Continue reading →

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