Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A San Fran Romance with Wrenching — “Maintenance Required”

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Maintenance Required” is a gear-grinding rom-com that tries to blend car repair and romance between two good looking mechanics who meet on an online vintage Ford Bronco restoration forum. That’s not a terrible idea, nor is the notion that Charlotte … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “What on God’s Flat Earth” is “Fackham Hall?”

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever you do, don’t say the title of this Britfarce of the Murder in the Drawing Room variety — they “watched the first two seasons of Downton Abbey” before filming it — quickly, and with a British accent? Thomasin McKenzie, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Soap Opera’s Season of Intrigues Precede the Famous Painting “Auction”

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

What an immersive byzantine delight the French dramedy “Auction” turns out to be. The latest from writer-director Pascal Bonitzer (“The Young Karl Marx,” and he scripted “Gemma Bovery”) is a playfully malicious peek behind the scenes of big money art … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “A Woman with No Filter” has some Grievances to Air

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the tradition of “A Woman Under the Influence,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “It’s My Turn,” and generations of women coming into their own in films comes “A Woman with No Filter,” a Brazilian comedy that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wahlberg, Key, Lakeith and Shalhoub “Play Dirty” in Shane Black-land

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Shane Black? Glib one-liners and glib gunplay? Bigger and bigger action, with a bigger and bigger bodycounts? The actor turned writer and writer-director who peaked with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” made his way to a “comeback” with “The Nice Guys” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Need an Assassin? Call “The Old Woman with the Knife”

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Lee Hye-Young stars in this Korean slicer-for-hire thriller from the director of “Memento Mori,” Min Kyu-dong. The plot is as old as “The Mechanic” — the Charles Bronson original — and reflects another variation on “Killers of a Certain Age.” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Filipino Gay Hustlers’ Odyssey — “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking”

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hooking up in bus station restrooms, hustling clients for sex in a cinema, police harassment, bullying, drugs, death and an impromptu funeral are on the menu of “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking,” a melodramatic saunter through one unnaturally long … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Renewing “The Commitments” to Irish Soul and Irish Joy (1991)

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Twas the writer Roddy Doyle who re-introduced the literary world to the concept of “Irish joy.” Sure’twas. His “Barrytown Trilogy” of comic novels in the late ’80s and early ’90s — the self-published sensation “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The … Continue reading →

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June Lockhart — 1925-2025, “Lassie’s” Mom, “Lost in Space”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

I can’t for the life of me remember why some PR firm was trotting “Lassie,” “Lost in Space” and “Petticoat Junction” TV star June Lockhart around in the ’80s. But I was a kid working in public radio in Charlotte, … Continue reading →

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