Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: A “Braveheart” take on “William Tell”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Connor Swindells, Jonathan Pryce and Sir Ben Kingsley star in this Swiss Myth Movie, which Samuel Goldwyn picked up for distribution in North America.

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Movie Preview: Thanks to Evil Eric Roberts, we’re gonna LOSE “The Comic Shop!”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

A bit squishy and sentimental for Quiver Distribution to pick up. Jesse Metcalf stars, with Tristan Mays, Micah Gionvanni and Aging like fine but Evil wine Eric Roberts. April 11, here we go.

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Movie Preview: Michael Shannon Directs Judy Greer, Alexander Skarsgård, Tracy Letts and Alison Pill — “Eric Larue”

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Greer plays the mother of a teen who killed people in this drama scripted by Brett Neveau and directed by the formidable Mr. Shannon. Looks like a Greer showcase, with a supporting cast a lot more worthy of her status … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: There’s Always a way Out of a Jam when you’re “Trigger Happy”

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Trigger Happy” is a bloody-minded dark comedy that at least managed to get the “dark” right. A stumbling misfire of a satire packed with repellent characters and rarely creative means of murder, it misses on most every level that matters. … Continue reading →

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Davey Tennant & Co. set the Awards Show Bar “500 Miles” High

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well, this is delightful. And kilted. Kudos to Kendrick and Colman for helping David Tennant, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox kick it up a notch at this year’s BAFTAs.

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Classic Film Review: A late life James Earl Jones gem is restored — “The Annihilation of Fish”

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the first accomplishments of the then newly-created National Film Registry was to rescue the work of Black indie filmmaker Charles Burnett. The Registry was Created by the Library of Congress in 1988 and set up to “preserve” as … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pedro Pascal in an Action Comedy Anthology — “Freaky Tales”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ben Mendelson, Normani and Jay Ellis also star in this collection of dark and darkly-funny crime stories set in ’87 Oakland. Tom Hanks plays a video store owner in this April 4 Lionsgate release.

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Movie (Documentary?) Preview: “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

This looks sweet, a couple of old stoners mending fences and having the last laugh. It smokes out April 25 (April 30 “previews”), and is basically self-distributed. So maybe it’ll be in a theater near you. Man.

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Movie Review: A Master Mocks Yakuza Hit-Man Movies — “Broken Rage”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Leave it to Beat Takeshi to ridicule the cinematic elephantiasis that has even the Great Scorsese pushing the limits of how long a night out at the movies should last. And that Brady Corbet “Brutalist” guy? Three and a half … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hemmings and Redgrave, The Yardbirds and 1960s London — Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

A young photographer is shaken to his core when he finally sees the beyond the Mod London surface gloss he so ably captures in “Blow-Up,” a vivid snapshot of a moment in time and a patient, chilling thriller about a … Continue reading →

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