Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Mel Gibson reminds cultish hostage takers it’s “Hunting Season”

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

She tried to get away, they shot her. Now Mel and his daughter are mixed up in their “business.”

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Classic Film Review: Lonsdale hunts Fox in Zimmerman’s “The Day of the Jackal” (1973)

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pristine, sleek and stylish, “The Day of the Jackal” is a period piece that’s aged into a period piece about a period piece. Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of Frederick Forsythe’s thriller novel recreates chic early ’60s Euro-travel, wining and dining … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Alia Shawkat and Chloë Sevigny” prep the troops for combat in “Atropia”

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Callum Turner, Tim Blake Nelson and Jane Levy also star this is goof on a nation atrophying in a forever war, training its troops in a pricey simulation Iraqi town in the California desert. Might have had promise, but Tim … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Claire Foy mourns dad Brendan Gleeson via a Goshawk — “H is for Hawk”

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Based on a memoir and thus a “true story,” this Jan. 23. release punches a lot of feel-good buttons, if the trailer’s any indication.

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Movie Review: Gang Life in LA never changes? “Die Like a Man”

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Title to subject matter, casting to setting, “Die Like a Man” is a by-the-numbers LA-gangland tale that takes its best shot at leaving no “number” out. Latin teen who celebrates his 17th birthday by “becoming a man” with a gang … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Aspiring Singer-Songwriter meets Toxic Lover/Mentor, “Off the Record”

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Off the Record” is a drab little “cautionary tale” of the music business about how a whirlwind courtship could cost you your publishing rights. The low-stakes, with mostly forgettable tunes and a meandering narrative make it a film that doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Why pull the trigger when “The Old Woman with the Knife” is available?

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Old Woman with the Knife” is a Korean variation on the World of Assassins tale, where killing for hire is a business with professionals assigned out of offices and following “rules.” It’s another story of an aged killer competing … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Her Son’s Arrest reduces her to “The Woman in the Line” at his Argentine Prison

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Due process” has been much on the minds and even in the news in North America, as ordinary citizens grapple with the shock of a rights-trampling regime killing people in boats it can’t identify much less charge with a crime … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Gunslingers” is a New Career Low for Everybody Involved

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Gunslingers” is an early 20th century Western set in Kentucky — nobody’s idea of the West — starring B-and-C movie icons Stephen Dorff, Heather Graham, Costas Mandylor and Nicolas Cage. And if that doesn’t lower your expectations for it, it … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: How We Got Here, “Palestine 36”

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Palestine’s hopes for an Oscar — Best International Feature — ride on this historical drama starring Hiam Abbas and Jeremy Irons. Land buys/land grabs, displacement by mass immigration, statehood and the long march towards apartheid and then genocide of an … Continue reading →

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