Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Classic Film Review: Still a hoot — Mssr. Belmondo’s Holiday — “That Man from Rio (L’homme de Rio)” (1964)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adrien, dashing from 1960s Rio de Janiero to Brasilia, the then new capital of Brazil, in a pink 1929 Chrysler 75 adored with green stars, pulls over at the first modernist police station he spies. He steps out of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pop Starlet Samara just keeps pushing Nutty Fan’s “love” over the “Borderline”

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Samara Weaving is a Madonna-esque pop superstar stalked by Ray Nicholson in his father Jack’s full “Here’s JOHNNY!” nutjob mode in “Borderline,” a violent and crazed comedy about celebrity and the delusions it feeds to those who have it and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Natalie Dormer crusades for Help for Kids with Cancer, and their Families — “Audrey’s Children”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dormer is Dr. Audrey Evans, who attacked childhood cancer in conventional and unventional ways, including pioneering opening the first Ronald McDonald’s House in 1969. Clancy Brown’s the veteran doctor trying to rein her in, with Brandon Michael Hall and Jimmi … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Dead Kevin Bacon’s “The Bondsman,” because you don’t skip bail on “The Devil”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Bacon gets to play a little music, drive a ’70 Chevelle and corral or kill demons on behalf of Old Scratch. Jolene Purdy, Damon Harriman and Beth Grant also star in this eight episode series, which may have enough ideas … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Pierce Brosnan, Dame Helen and Tom Hardy dive into Guy RitchieWorld — “MOBLAND”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

A “Downton Abbey” alumna pops up in this trailer, too. See if you spot her. Is this a “spinoff from ‘Ray Donovan?’” Never watched that. “MOBLAND”– Paramount/Ritchie INSIST on ALL CAPS for the title — premieres on Paramount + March … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Norwegian remake follows a drunken, aimless skier on “The Wrong Track”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the more disillusioning aspects of the Golden Age of Content is the way Netflix repurposes intellectual property and remakes films for different markets. Spanish films get almost pointless Mexican or Argentine remakes, and vice versa. And it all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dito Montiel rounds up Murray, Coolidge, Davidson, Union and Ed Harris as “Riff Raff”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

The trailers hint that there might be laughs, that the tone of “Riff Raff” — a dark and bloody comedy about hit men, family, and how those two only exist together in the movies — could very well come off. … Continue reading →

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Who isn’t happy Zoe Saldaña won an Oscar?

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not the fangirls and fanboys who grew up watching her embellish or flat out carry her share of sci-fi franchises — “Star Trek,” “Avatar” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” among them. Not pre-“fanboy” fans who realized what she brought to … Continue reading →

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So “Anora” was the Best the Movies had to Show us Last Year?

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sure. Right. Yeah. But come on. A tale of Russian oligarchs and a first-gen immigrant sex worker’s tangle with them — the exploited and the exploiters switching roles, if only briefly — is a movie of the moment, of this … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hackman’s a Working Class CIA Joe taking care of “Company Business”

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not every actor’s all that picky about her or his wardrobe. But the great ones are. Glenn Ford didn’t find a character until he picked out just the right hat. Piper Laurie would fuss over what purse somebody she was … Continue reading →

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