Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Killer Canines from “The Breed” inspire “A Breed Apart”

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dopey horror about a gathering on an idyllic island which one person can win as their very own if they catch or “bag” the most feral dogs who escaped a movie shoot there years before. Hayden Panatierre, Grace Caroline Currey … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Mike Flanagan and Stephen King land Tom Hiddleston, Mia Sara, Karen Gillan, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mark Hamill for “The Life of Chuck”

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Festival buzz for this June release has been pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty good. Festival Groupthink? It’s totally a thing. But we’ll see. In June.

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Movie Review: Alt Future “Daddy” tests determine who achieves Fatherhood

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s ambition and a dollop of intellectual heft to the indie dramedy “Daddy.” Even if it misplaces characters, shortchanges its goals and fails to deliver much in the way of a satisfying conclusion, you can appreciate the attempt and the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Ken Loach dip into Dickensiana — “Black Jack” (1979)

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ken Loach built his career on films of protest, depicting the oppressed of many places and many eras in their struggle against their oppressors. The Brit’s “socialist realism” was obvious from his breakthrough English working class classic “Kes,” with the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Frozen Hot Boys” ice-sculpt their way to glory

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting. Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dennis Quaid’s raised a rodeo rider (Wyatt Russell) who’s “Broke” in more ways than one

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mary McDonnell, Tom Skerritt and Auden Thornton also star in this direct-to-streaming modern day Western from the director of “The Signal.” May 6.

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Movie Preview: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler in Ari Aster’s “Eddington”

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

A pointed political parable about the schism that’s caused America’s downfall, a microcosm of hate, violence and decline set in “Eddington,” New Mexico. “Coming soon?” Sure. But as the fact that it’s set in 2020 makes clear, it’s already here.

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Movie Preview: Kroll & Rannells play a gay couple whose Italian vacay goes ever so wrong — “I Don’t Understand You”

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

They’re celebrating their anniversary and the arrival of their baby. Things go deathly wrong. More than once. Nick Kroll and Rannells, of “The Prom” and “The Intern,” make it work. This is one cute looking dark comedy. Look for it … Continue reading →

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The One Thing “Drop” and “The Amateur” have in common? The “Saab” Getaway

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Maybe you’ve got to be a car guy-or-pronoun-of-your-choice to notice it. But Thursday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice that the first-date/widowed mom under threat who’s got to make a dash home to save her kid and her babysitting kid … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A First Date Dominated by a Cell Phone and a Stranger’s “Drop”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A tony, high-rise restaurant filled with potential suspects, any one of whom might “airdrop” the threats and blackmailed instructions for a murder onto our shocked and frantic heroine’s cell phone, is the setting and plot of “Drop,” a middling horror … Continue reading →

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