Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Ralph Fiennes is a WWI choirmaster with a bit too much German about him for “The Choral”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A real Who’s Who of British character actors flesh out the supporting cast — Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale and Mark Addy among them — of this film from “The Madness of King George” Nicholas Hytner and the screenwriter Alan … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser’s an Actor in Tokyo taking the role of a lifetime — “Rental Family”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Japanese/American variation on the “Get somebody to play her dad” story trope. Ever seen Gerard Butler in “Dear Frankie,” for instance? Searchlight has Hikari’s  “Rental Family,” a dollop of sweetness, slated for the holidays. She directed “Beef” and “37 … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Godard, Bardot, Palance and “The Odyssey” — “Contempt” (1963)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jean-Luc Godard, the most-analyzed, dissected and critiqued auteur of his generation makes his grand statement on the compromises and sell-outs required by salope déesse cinema with “Contempt,” his biggest-ever hit, a movie about making movies. The critic turned cinematic revolutionary … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Lost in Dementia and Memory Care, seeking that “Familiar Touch”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Familiar Touch” is a simple, documdrama-real film of frank honesty and sensitivity about dementia and adjusting to life in Memory Care. If you’re fortunate enough to not know that label, describing the wing or floor of any nursing home or … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Swedish Law Student attempts “An Honest Life” among Anarchists

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Young Simon learns the Latin phrase “Ex Liga Libertas,” “from the law comes freedom,” on his first day at law school in Lund, Sweden. But hanging out with anarchists, listening to their “always be drunk” Baudelaire rules for living and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jamie Lee and Woody and Emma Mackey in James L. Brooks’ “Ella McCay

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brit Emma Mackey of “Barbie” and “Death on the Nile” has the title role, a 34 year old governor with family issues. Kumail Nanjiani, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis and Woody Harrelson flesh out an all-star cast. Julie Kavner narrates, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Denzel and Spike do Kurosawa –“Highest 2 Lowest”

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jeffrey Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Wendell Pierce, Rick Fox and Ice Spice also star in Spike Lee’s version of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” the third take on that 1963 ransom script, this one set in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Father seeks Justice and Answers about his Murdered Child — “Barron’s Cove”

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Screenwriter Evan Ari Kelman wrote a script — “Barron’s Cove” — that made “The Black List,” a survey of studio folks who vote on the “most liked” unproduced scripts they’ve read in a given year. In eventually making the sale … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” and how a TV host Changed America

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

He wasn’t a natural “performer.” Ed Sullivan had a face made for radio and voice best appreciated in print, where he’d gained fame as a Broadway columnist and sportswriter. Stiff, later somewhat stooped, with odd vocal cadences and a fear … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Hedge your bets, “Kill the Jockey”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart gives off strong Roberto Benigni energy in the surreal, or at least wildly eccentric “Kill the Jockey.” His haircut and slight jockey’s build makes the physical resemblance land, even if the character has relatively … Continue reading →

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