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Movie Review: “Bring Her Back” — Horror One Suffers Through rather than Relishes

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not a blanket condemnation to say I could not wait for “Bring Her Back,” the excruciating new film from the co-directors of “Talk to Me,” to come to an end. One can recognize its unflinching, grisly details and unsparing … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Karate Kid: Legends,” down for the Count

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Let’s call the standing — or flat on its back — ten count on the “Karate Kid” movies after “Karate Kid: Legends.” Sentimental father figure martial arts revenge dramas frosted with the honor and code of the Asian fighting arts … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Aloha” means “Why Bother?” with this remake of “Lilo & Stitch”

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The latest Disney remake of an animated classic makes “Lilo & Stitch” more Hawaiian and less cartoonish. The former might be a big deal, in terms of getting Hawaian culture right and advertising the island paradise-state to tourists. But the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Brando goes Godfather one last time for “The Freshman” (1990)

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brando skates! Maximillian Schell sings! Brando kisses Broderick! Bert Parks croons Dylan! And most amazingly of all, no wildlife, or actors, were actually harmed in the making of “The Freshman,” an old-fashioned PG-rated romp from 1990. Well, maybe the writer-director … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Return to “Fear Street” for a dull and forgettable “Prom Night”

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Return we now to “Fear Street,” where R.L. Stine set up shop to appeal to older kid readers and which Netflix dove into for not one or two, but a three film series four years ago. The first three films … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “A Hard Place,” aka “The Evil Dead” by the Humorless and Uninspired

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

The biggest names in the indie horror flick “A Hard Place” are Bai Ling from “The Crow” and Glenn Plummer, who attained screen immortality with his turn in “Showgirls.” So it’s fitting that they get off easy. They’re the recognizable … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Dark Comedy of Class, Gimmicks and Great Critical Repute — “Kind Hearts and Coronets”

Posted on May 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

It is remembered for the grand stunt of casting the great Alec Guinness as eight members of a largely imperious and callous noble family, and making each so distint as to erase the label “gimmick” from what became a quintessential … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Against the Clock,” aka “Headlock” traps Agron in a Polish Joke

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The lengths some guys will go to in order to get Dianna Agron to make out with them. The first-time I paid attention to Mark Polish of the filmmaking Polish Twins (with brother Michael Polish) was when “Twin Falls, Idaho,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Fountain of Youth” ages Everybody Involved

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

It begins with some sparkling action — a motorbike/fisticuffs getaway in Bangkok — and lopes into a jaunty railroading escape in rural Thailand. There are self-aware jokes ridiculing the silliness of the very idea of a magical “fountain” that bestows … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” or so we presume

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s all just too much, really. The flashbacks within flashbacks, serving up 30 years of “Mission: Impossible’s” Great Hits, dead characters (and deceased actors) revisited, the dangling from this or that, or diving, or dying — the A-bombs, missles ready … Continue reading →

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