Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Britain’s Best Join or are Pursued by “The Thursday Murder’s Club”

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not the silliest idea ever, taking “The Only Murders in the Building” and making the building Downton Abbey. “The Thursday Murders Club” is a lighthearted bit of senior sleuthing that takes a prime cut of Britain’s best and most … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Rami Malek’s a Shrink, Shannon and Slattery Lawyers and Russell Crowe is Goering, on the stand at “Nuremburg”

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

This is the full first trailer to this star-studded November (Awards Season) release from Sony Classics. Looks good. Excellent casting. But as producer turned director James Vanderbilt gave us the lightly-regarded Dan Rather vs. Bush II drama “Truth,” keep your … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Finnish Avenger Goes Hollywood — “Sisu 2: Road to Revenge”

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Stephen Lang is the villain, there’s more CGI to help make the slaughter more graphic and more over the top. Our Finn who’s been wronged turned his attentions from Nazis to Soviets (Same diff?) in this sequel. It’s short — … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What’s it take for plumbers to be “Scared Sh–less?”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Because the world needs a Midnight movie at film festivals all over, a no-budget creature feature with a pun title about turds. Liquid Plumber won’t save us this time. Oct. 3? Here goes.

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Movie Preview: All the best Villains are Brits, “All the Devils are Here”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eddie Marsan and Burn Gorman, actor names made for Heavies. Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse and Rory Kinnear also star in this thriller about hoodlums laying low in Dartmoor. Sept. 18.

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Movie Review: A Junkie’s Daughters Conspire about “What We Hide”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

“What We Hide” is an engaging but unsurprising melodrama about a broken family and one teen daughter’s desperate, extralegal efforts to salvage what’s left. Their addict mother has died. And rather than “let them separate us,” teen Spider (Mckenna Grace) … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: No Sleep for the “Restless,” but What About Revenge?

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Restless” is a spare, reasonably taut thriller of the “Neighbor from Hell” subgenre, the sort of movie most any member of Western or Eastern Civilization can relate to. Writer-director Jed Hart serves up a little suspense and a few surprises … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind”

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Josh O’Connor has the title role in the latest film from the director of “Wendy & Lucy,” “First Cow” and “Showing Up.” Bill Camp, Hope Davis, Gaby Hoffman, Alana Haim, Matthew Maher and John Magaro also star in this Reichardt … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bradley Cooper gives Will Arnett the (stand-up) Spotlight — “Is This Thing On?”

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Laura Dern, director Bradley C. and Andra Day also star in this latest riff on the toxic lifestyle and broken souls drawn to stand-up comedy. A December release, right in the heart of Awards Season. Looks good. Novel and new? … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock winds the “Ticking Clock” — “Sabotage”(1936)

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Alfred Hitchcock polished his anecdote about how to become “The Master of Suspense” over the decades, refining his definition of “the ticking clock” thriller to the “bomb under the table” analogy he related for a TV interview very late in … Continue reading →

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