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Movie Review: Marvel’s New “A” Team earns its asterisk — “Thunderbolts*”

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

It takes a solid hour to get going, and pretty much as long to identify its characters. Good luck if you buy a ticket and show up without more background than you typically need to know for a comic book … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? German soldier loses her son in “Exterritorial” territory — the U.S. Embassy

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Welcome to the golden age of America as Outlaw State, as depicted in international action cinema. “Exterritorial” has Americans as treasonous allies, corrupt drug smugglers and heartless bureaucrats — kidnapping children and Belarussian refugees, selling “intel” to common enemies and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: It’s 2025 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: It’s 2026 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)

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Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” holds off “Accountant 2,” ancient “Revenge of the Sith” slips by “Minecraft,” “Until Dawn” bombs

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

The crowd pleasing sequel to Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin thriller “The Accountant” didn’t have much of a chance against Ryan Coogler’s “Get Out” sized horror phenomenon, “Sinners.” “Sinners” is having a near-historic “hold” on its second weekend. After opening with … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Affleck and Bernthal BOTH do the math in “The Accountant 2”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s too long and entirely too damned glib about the ultraviolent mayhem it unleashes on the just and the unjust. The plot is intentionally convoluted, with “hero” assassins and a disapproving Fed out to save a lady assassin from the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: It’s game-over if you can’t make it “Until Dawn”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You could probably tell in a couple of minutes that this weekend’s cinematic sacrificial lamb to the horror gods is based on a video game without being reminded that “Until Dawn” was born on Playstation in the opening credits. Stock … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Gay Fantasia about Honest Abe’s Same Sex Romance — “Lavender Men”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Lavender Men” is an ambitious but meandering and indulgent indie film failure. It’s not the subject matter that does it in, as it’s another film (“Lover of Men”) and play (“Oh, Mary!”) that dives into the notion that Abraham Lincoln … Continue reading →

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