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Movie Review: As “Indie” as they come — “AJ Goes to the Dog Park”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

“AJ Goes to the Dog Park” is a cheerfully cheesy semi-surreal indie film about what one dopey chihuahua owner will go through to get his dog park back. It’s twee in the extreme, with the occasional sophisticated effect — “No … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Messy, Violent and Problematic birth of Israel seen through the eyes of “Shoshona” and Her Brit Beau

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Timely? You think? July 25.

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Classic Film Review: Verhoeven showcases Hauer as his WWII Dutch “Soldier of Orange”(1977)

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Long before “Robocop” made him a household name and “Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls” and “Starship Troopers” made him infamous, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven gained international acclaim for a few films in his native Holland, the most enduring of which is his … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Biopic about Tourette’s and one man’s war against it — “I Swear”

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and determined that others shouldn’t have to endure what he did, the Scot John Davidson collected an MBE for his efforts to raise awareness about Tourette Syndrome. Robert Aramyo, Peter Mullen and Shirley Henderson star in this biopic, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: McKenna Grace and Jojo Regina plays sisters who lay low after Momma’s Death — “What We Hide”

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

The System and a punk placed by Dacre Montgomery menace these two in “What we Hide,” which opens Aug. 29.

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Movie Preview: A 1980s effort to comically restart The Peloponnesian War – “A Spartan Dream”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ’80s period piece with a dollop of Greco American whimsy? Cute. And way before Gerry Butler made “This is SPARTA” a great rallying cry and punchline. Aug.15.

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Netflixable? Tyler Perry’s Back in Drag for “Madea’s Destination Wedding”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

You just know that what few conditions Netflix probably had in the big fat contract it gave the prolific Tyler Perry, one of them was “Give us a Madea movie every now and then.” Because even if his hilariously outspoken … Continue reading →

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The Unheeded Climate Warnings of James Burke’s “After the Warming” (1989)

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

The record-warm winters, the baking hot summers — some dry, others filled with historic floods from “extraordinary rain events” — have a lot of people ready to lecture each other on when these “just as predicted” consequences of climat change … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch Duo are on the case as “Almost Cops”

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Dutch word for “buddy picture” is “vriendenfilm.” They take their shot at the genre with a cop/buddy action comedy, “Almost Cops,” whose title in Dutch is “Bad Boas,” a cute pun. That’s funnier than anything in this stunningly unsurprising … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What horrors await the chopper crash survivor from “The Occupant?”

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ella Balinska stars, Hugo Keijzer directs, and they cut a damned creepy trailer out of it.

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