Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: “This is Spinal Tap II” “The end continues?”

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sept. 25, crank it up to eleven. Again.

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Movie Preview: Michelle Williams is “Dying for Sex” — Can Jenny Slate help her with her “bucket list?”

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dying and “immuno compromised,” Molly (five time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams) is a woman on a “sex quest.” It’ll take a special sassy bestie to help that pay off. Oscar winner Sissy Spacek, Jay Duplass and Rob Delaney are also … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Horror set in the realm of the “Kryptic”

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Canadian-set thriller with a forest disappearance, a genus of weird woodland…entities possibly responisible, a curious young woman (Chloe Pirrie) in search of answers that could get her in over her head. “Beast or spirit? Don’t think anyone quite knows … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bill Skarsgård gets “Locked” in that one car he should never have tried to steal

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’ve seen guys like this in many a city throughout the world. They stroll down a less busy street, eyes darting back and forth under their hoodies, tried to look casual as they take hold of every car door handle … Continue reading →

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The only film critic in America converting a small barn to a henhouse?

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

I won’t refer to my not-a-professional carpenter, not remotely Amish efforts as “cinematic.” But let’s just say that putting down the rasp, the hammer, assorted screwdrivers, the jigsaw and the ancient power drill, I’ve never felt more “Keatonesque.

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Movie Preview: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in Celine Song’s rom (com?), “Materialists”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Matchmaker Dakota J’s a “Sex and the City” style good-looking-rich-guys-“unicorn” hunter with her head turned by wealthy Pedro P and her heart touched by hunky waiter Chris E. Madonna’s “Material Girl” era lives on. Marin Ireland and Sawyer Spielberg are … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Dash of Nostalgia and Sentiment, and a Make-Work project for all the Sandlers Poppa Bear Adam wants to put in the movies — “Happy Gilmore 2”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

We see Stiller and (ugh) Nick Swardson, Margaret Qualley and Sandler spawn and Sandler hangers’on and a lot of pro golfers in this trailer to a sequel to one of Adam Sandler’s most popular comedies ever. Good thing they brought … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Surviving “Last Tango,” “Being Maria”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

The scene, like the movie it dominates, was infamous before anybody outside of the production had seen it. The movie was stilted, strange, shocking and controversial, even in the hypersexualized “art cinema” of the ’70s. And the title, “Last Tango … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Paul Walter Hauser is gaming a game show — “The Luckiest Man in America”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

A 1984 scandal that not many remember is the subject of this thriller featuring Walton Goggins, Haley Bennett, David Strathairn, Shamier Anderson and Johnny Knoxville. Paul Walter Hauser is pretty damned good at suggesting “sketchy,” I must say. Even if … Continue reading →

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It’s Saint Patrick’s Day — Watch “The Quiet Man,” listen to “diddley aye music,” and plot your Pilgrimage to Eire

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

That’s the drill every March 17, isn’t it? Listen to a spot of this. Watch an Irish film or two. “The Late Rite,” I’d suggest. Or Roddy Doyle’s “The Snapper,” “The Van” or “The Commitments,” maybe Gabriel Byrne’s “Into the … Continue reading →

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