Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Master Documentarian Errol Morris takes on Manson’s Motives and MO — “Chaos: The Manson Murders”

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Over fifty years after the Charles Manson/Tate-LaBianca murders, the “Helter Skelter” slaughter continues to entice and challenge the American psyche. With all the books, all the films and TV miniseries about it, with even Quentin Tarantino weighing in with a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A boy’s “Camera” captures an Elegy to Age and a Dying Fishing Town

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Camera” is an indie ode to taking photographs on celluloid wrapped around a poignant coming of age story set in a fishing town that’s going down — emptying out and dying of old age. It’s right in the wheelhouse of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bertolucci, Brando (Matt Dillon) and “Being Maria” Schneider make “Last Tango in Paris”

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A notorious ’70s film got a lot more notorious in recent years as its co-star — the then young and new to film Maria Schneider, spoke of the ugliness and on camera abuse that went into making it. Anamaria Vartolomei … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Chinese Mob Lawyer insists “I Did It My Way”

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“I Did It My Way” is a Hong Kong cops-vs-Dark Web/Drug Trade thriller that unfolds like a tragic opera, one set to the strains of Frank Sinatra’s third biggest hit. The action, emotions and sentimental turns in the plot are … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Revolution against the Plutocrats will be…a Sadie Sink musical? “O’Dessa”

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sink has the title role, a poor girl trapped in a dystopia run by Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett) with only her songs to fight the fascism. Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Mark Boone, Jr. also star in this one, which … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: A David Oyelowo period piece comedy — “Government Cheese”

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

An inventor, family man, ex-con and career B&E specialist and all around hustler. Doesn’t exactly fit how we’ve generally seen David Oyelowo (“Selma,””The Book of Clarence”) on screen, big or small. Simone Missick co-stars. Yeah, I barely recognized Bokeem Woodbine … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “A Nice Indian Boy” just wants to meet another “Nice Indian Boy”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mindy Kaling produced this April 4 (Wayfarer) release about a gay Indian doctor who meets his dreamboat — a white man adopted by Indian parents. This is a culture clash comedy STUFFED with POSSIBILITIES — Indian diaspora attitudes towards homosexuality, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Inner Life and Trials of a mild-mannered Librarian — “Darkest Miriam”

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Britt Lower stars in this account of the loneliness of a profession which entails a lot more than just books. Any public librarian in any town or city of any size deals with the cranky, loud elderly, unruly youth, the … Continue reading →

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