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Movie Preview: The “official” “F1” trailer gives Javier Bardem the first and last word, lets Brad Pitt lose his shirt

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

June 27. Feel the hype? I’m gettin’ there.

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Movie Review: A Pop Music Fable trapped in YA Sci-Fi Land –“O’Dessa”

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Generations raised on stories about this or that world/future/universe saved by “The Chosen One” deserve a musical about this post-religion/post Potter fantasy in the flesh. So here’s “O’Dessa,” a close-to-the-present-day dystopian fable about a “Seventh Son” who happens to be … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Numbing even without the violence –“Novocaine”

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

It begins with sentiment, introducing a character worthy of our sympathy, if not our pity. There’s an emotional tug to the scenes in which the guy with the genetic malady connects with that cute co-worker who seems to “get” him. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Treasure Trove of Secrets are concealed via a “Black Bag”

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

You don’t see men in turtlenecks anymore. They mostly turn up in spy thrillers, these days — gloomy, conspiratorial pictures with a fall, wintry or too-early spring setting, scripted to match the Cold War that passed and the chilly one … Continue reading →

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Something appears “off”about this showing of “Novocaine”

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s slow enough without a ten minute delay due to projector download issues. Two credited directors? Which one was responsible for the pacing? The bits between the torture, no-pain but blood and burns and broken bones and bullet wound fights … Continue reading →

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Filmgoing in S. Fla is about to Get More Fascist

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

“And the Oscar (for Best Documentary Feature) goes to, ‘No Other Land,’” a Palestinian/Israeli project with Palestinian and Norwegian producers. It’s another documentary doing what American media in particular have avoided, reporting on Israel’s brutal land-grabbing practices by focusing on … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Nasty Norwegian Goof on The Brothers Grimm — “The Ugly Stepsister”

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

IFC/Shudder has this one, whose trailer is worth a grim grin or two, slated for April 18 release.

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Movie Review: Prospective Parents Olsen and Patel quake at “The Assessment” by Alicia Vikander

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Assessment” is smart and sinister sci-fi of “The Handmaids Tale” school, a striking, minimalist parable about humanity’s failings in facing an inhumane future. A geographically and architecturally stark setting hosts a grim lecture on family, population and the psychology … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gambling, Same Sex Attraction “On Swift Horses”

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter and Daisy Edgar-Jones head the cast of this adaptation of the Shannon Pufahl novel. Edgar-Jones and Poulter play a married couple upended by the risky business his brother brings to their lives and relationships. April 25, … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn and grand theft of the rich and entitled — “Your Friends Neighbor’s”

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hamm’s a high roller who hits the wall and resorts to stealing from his well heeled “Friends & Neighbors.” Possibilities? April 11, this series hits Apple TV+.

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