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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: It’s 2026 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: It’s 2026 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)

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Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Kevin Spacey returns from the Wilderness — or Doesn’t — “1780”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Southern fried accent in Revolutionary War Pennsylvania? That totally tracks. Doesn’t look like much,  but we’ll see, if this isn’t canceled pre release.

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Movie Preview: Blair Witch Myth Marketing Lives! “Weapons”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

This August release is mainly interesting because of the way the “Maybrook Missing” children, who (in the film) dashed out of their homes and into the night at 2:17 pm, is being shallow faked into “reality.” It’s an August 8 … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Melodrama polished to a fine sheen, “Bonjour Tristesse”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

The serene overheated-via-slow-simmer melodrama “Bonjour Tristesse” leaves its 1950s origins behind in a shimmering new screen adaptation by first-time writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Based on the most famous work of French college girl novelist Françoise Sagan, this tale of privilege, petulant … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Julianne Moore has Milly Alcock, but not sister Meghann Fahy, as one of her “Sirens”

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A huge estate on a posh island, lots of “followers” who live at the beck and call of a mysterious beauty only her closest associates call “Kiki,” a sister in search of a sibling who “wasn’t there” for their father’s … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Elba and Cena, Idris and John are action hero “Heads of State”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

This looks almost theatrical, like say Nettlix’s “Bullet Train” and a few other titles of late. But Amazon’s feeding us Idris Elba and John Cena as a prime minister and a movie star president who have to get physical, with … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Affleck and Bernthal BOTH do the math in “The Accountant 2”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s too long and entirely too damned glib about the ultraviolent mayhem it unleashes on the just and the unjust. The plot is intentionally convoluted, with “hero” assassins and a disapproving Fed out to save a lady assassin from the … Continue reading →

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