Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: Malek schemes and turns the screws as “The Amateur”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A good cast and a clever variation of the man with “particular skills” revenge thriller formula make “The Amateur” an often entertaining slice of spy games hokum. Rami Malek stars as a CIA crypto analayst and tinkerer who becomes obsessed … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Dying woman frets over past lives and the “Sarogeto” she hires to get through this one

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Sarogeto” is a cryptic, morose and meandering wander around grief, death and dying and “past lives” that’s only as mysterious as its title. Once you know what “Sarogeto” means in Japanese, it’s easier to understand that “icky” was probably not … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Central and South Americans find they must fight for “Water for Life”

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

We’ve been warned for decades that the next “war” between the world’s haves and have-nots is going to be over water. From hydroelectric dams pushed by outside profiteers to mineral interests that need water for mining to just plain “let’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An all-star Animated tale of “The King of Kings,” as told by Charles Dickens

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The King of Kings” is a compact, cute Life of Jesus served up in animated form for parents to take their kids to this Easter. An all-star voice cast decorates a beautifully animated offering from Angel Studios, produced as the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Ferrer, Huston and the Can Can — “Moulin Rouge” (1952)

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

The American master John Huston was an Oscar winning director and screenwriter, and no slouch as an actor. A bon vivant, boxer, horseman and at his richest, a member of the Irish landed gentry, he became Hollywood’s most famous Renaissance … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Mobsters meet Japanese Puppeteers — Tim Roth, Takehiro Hira, Jack Lowden and Kôki star in “Tornado”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

You had me at…puppeteers? Director John Maclean did “Slow West,” and used to play in a couple of pop bands. We’ll see what we see that comes out of all this and that May 25.

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Movie Review: Payback’s a B–ch in “Revolver”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Revolver” is a Korean “Payback,” another version of the and the Lee Marvin/John Boorman thriller that’s based on, “Point Blank.” Somebody went to jail, did the time. They get out. They’re owed money. They’re damned sure going to collect it. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Scarjo & Benicio, Cumberbatch & Cranston, Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenican Scheme”

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

You can tell it’s an Anderson picture within five seconds. The kitschy production design and graphics, the voice over, the Michael Cera/Jeffrey Wright/Rupert-Riz riffs? May 30. Expect to be tickled to death by a tale of oligarchs and terrorists and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading →

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