Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Aspirational Filipino couple become “Sosyal Climbers”

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Sosyal Climbers” is a cleverly plotted but cloying to the point of cutesie Filipino romantic comedy about a young couple that stumbles into a shortcut to their hearts’ desire — getting rich. It’s an Around the World with Netflix film … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Dark Comedy of Class, Gimmicks and Great Critical Repute — “Kind Hearts and Coronets”

Posted on May 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

It is remembered for the grand stunt of casting the great Alec Guinness as eight members of a largely imperious and callous noble family, and making each so distint as to erase the label “gimmick” from what became a quintessential … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Against the Clock,” aka “Headlock” traps Agron in a Polish Joke

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The lengths some guys will go to in order to get Dianna Agron to make out with them. The first-time I paid attention to Mark Polish of the filmmaking Polish Twins (with brother Michael Polish) was when “Twin Falls, Idaho,” … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Lambos, Pubs, Tik Tok Tractoring and health scares come to “Clarkson’s Farm 4”

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of streaming TV’s most popular “reality” series returns for a fourth season of plowing, planting, impregnating and shipping off to slaughter in “Clarkson’s Farm 4,” the British show about celebrity TV motoring reviewer/presenter Jeremy Clarkson‘s transition to gentleman farming. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Fountain of Youth” ages Everybody Involved

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

It begins with some sparkling action — a motorbike/fisticuffs getaway in Bangkok — and lopes into a jaunty railroading escape in rural Thailand. There are self-aware jokes ridiculing the silliness of the very idea of a magical “fountain” that bestows … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Lili & Stitch” rise again — all time Memorial Day Box Office Smash, “Mission: Impossible” might clear $77

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

If you’re a kid, you don’t have a sense of the bottom line cynicism, milking-an-idea-for-all-its-worth fatigue of knowing Disney’s animated hit of a couple of decades back, which also spun off a TV series, is a tad…familiar. And if you’re … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Student Film Gets picked up for Wide Distribution — “Lands End”

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A collaborative effort by UC Berkeley students resulted in this drama of three interconnected creative lives struggling to break through. Very polished looking, if a tad navel gazing in nature. Freestyle will serve this up June 13.

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Movie Preview: An Irish Romance decorated with Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne and Pierce Brosnan — “Four Letters of Love”

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Novelist Niall Williams adapted his novel for director Polly Steele (“Let Me Go”), a period piece built around a youthful love affair tested and assisted by faith, history, ghosts, etc. Ann Skelly and Finn O’Shea are the young lovers, with … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dermot Mulroney’s a crooked senator who finds “Killing Mary Sue” a bit tricky

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sierra McCormick has the title role in this June 13 first-person-shooter action comedy. Note the “Fortnight” reference. Mulroney, French Stewart, Jake Busey, Jason Mewes, Sean Patrick Flanery, veteran heavy Martin Kove and I assume his son Jesse are also in … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Darren Aronosky has Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz “Caught Stealing”

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Aged punks, Hassidic gangsters and a clever vanity plate tumble together in this who-stole-what-from-whom action comedy Aronofsky’s not exactly box office, nor are his stars. So that may explain the “dumping ground of August” release date (8-29). They cut a … Continue reading →

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