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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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Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin and Kurt Russell, 1930s Ex-Cons on a “Fools’ Parade” (1971)

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s easy to dismiss the picaresque action comedy “Fool’s Parade” as an “old man movie,” because that was kind of the idea back when it was made. James Stewart was 63 in 1971, when it came out, with a bunch … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Noisy Zombies spoil the Peace and Quiet of “Silent Zone”

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was a time when zombies were slow and the movies about them were quick. The walking dead would lurch into sight and characters would have to go out of their way to trip or somehow be trapped by the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Treasure Trove of Secrets are concealed via a “Black Bag”

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

You don’t see men in turtlenecks anymore. They mostly turn up in spy thrillers, these days — gloomy, conspiratorial pictures with a fall, wintry or too-early spring setting, scripted to match the Cold War that passed and the chilly one … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Prospective Parents Olsen and Patel quake at “The Assessment” by Alicia Vikander

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Assessment” is smart and sinister sci-fi of “The Handmaids Tale” school, a striking, minimalist parable about humanity’s failings in facing an inhumane future. A geographically and architecturally stark setting hosts a grim lecture on family, population and the psychology … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: When Ireland isn’t Enough, “The Problem with People”

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

A couple of top flight character actors — Irish mainstay Colm Meaney and American kvetcher Paul Reiser — pair up for an Irish comedy about family history, inheritance, grudges and cultures clashing in “The Problem with People.” It’s got the … 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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Movie Review: Hell hath no fury like the heroine of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths”

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pansy is a 50something Londoner in a roomy new flat that she keeps immaculate, married and wholly supported by her plumber husband of many years, Curtley. And all Pansy does, from morning til night, is “rage, rage against the dying … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Locksmith lives to Regret Taking that One “Night Call”

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

I’m of two minds about that subgenre we call the hero/heroine with “particular skills” thriller. The parade of Liam Neeson/Jason Statham/John Cena et al action pictures where this mobster, that rogue government or rogue government agency or creepy neighbor crosses … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A cuppa “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” if you please

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well cor blimey and “butter me crumpets,” Wallace & Gromit are back. Britain’s most adorable exports since the Minis — the Cooper and the Skirt — are back for another twee stop-motion animated farce that reminds us of how much … Continue reading →

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