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Classic Film Review: A Ken Loach dip into Dickensiana — “Black Jack” (1979)

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ken Loach built his career on films of protest, depicting the oppressed of many places and many eras in their struggle against their oppressors. The Brit’s “socialist realism” was obvious from his breakthrough English working class classic “Kes,” with the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Kingsley, Mirren and Dance scheme their way across “Pascali’s Island” (1988)

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

The decade after Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for his performance in the title role “Gandhi” was one of the most interesting of his storied, four-Oscar nomination career. He’d been a respected but mostly unknown player on Brit TV for … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” opens big(ish), but underwhelms, “Alto Knights” Bomb

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Is the fact that they cast a Latina actress, Rachel Zegler, as “Snow White” scaring off racist parents? Does knowing Disney chose to CGI its way around casting actual dwarf actors — there are many, and Peter Dinklage is merely … Continue reading →

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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: Baby Brian (De Palma) and Baby Bobby (DeNiro) — “Hi, Mom!” (1970)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brian DePalma’s fourth “experimental” indie feature is a time capsule of New York in decay and political disarray. It’s the movie in which his no budget guerilla filmmaking connected with the zeitgeist, and an audience of the young and the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: An anti-war parable that became a landmark of Japanese cinema — “Ugetsu” (1953)

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting,” the potter Genjurô tells a noblewoman and patron at one point in the classic film “Ugetsu,” a Medieval fantasy based on the “Rain-Moon Tales” of 18th century writer Ueda … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” changed the Cinema and the way the World Views It

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

Few classic films have had the impact that “Rashomon” had on the world cinema when it premiered at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, and when it opened in the United States the day after Christmas that same year. Much of … Continue reading →

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