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Movie Review: A Robot Might Provide or Deny “The Last Spark of Hope”

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Almost all science fiction is in the business of world-building, creating a landscape, setting, period in time or even “universe” where the story takes place. Dystopias engage in world-destroying. The Polish thriller “The Last Spark of Hope” manages to serve … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Viola Davis is a (literally) Embattled President trying to Survive “G20”

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

When it comes to action pictures, there’s “So bad that it’s good” and whatever the hell “G20” amounts to. So bad that it’s not godawful? The idea of Oscar winner Viola Davis, aka “The Woman King,” as a two-fisted, combat … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ambitious “Sinners” fails to transcend genre

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Black Panther,” “Creed” and “Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler sets his sights on horror with “Sinners,” a sprawling Depression Era tale of race, religion and “The Devil’s Music,” the blues. Coogler immerses us in the early ’30s South where a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “A Wedding Banquet” remake shows us Just How Far We’ve Come

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

More charming than amusing, chosing sentiment over “edge,” the Andrew Ahn remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer cinema classic “The Wedding Banquet” gives the viewer time to reflect on just how much American and world culture have changed in the … Continue reading →

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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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Movie Review: A First Date Dominated by a Cell Phone and a Stranger’s “Drop”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A tony, high-rise restaurant filled with potential suspects, any one of whom might “airdrop” the threats and blackmailed instructions for a murder onto our shocked and frantic heroine’s cell phone, is the setting and plot of “Drop,” a middling horror … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Malek schemes and turns the screws as “The Amateur”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

A good cast and a clever variation of the man with “particular skills” revenge thriller formula make “The Amateur” an often entertaining slice of spy games hokum. Rami Malek stars as a CIA crypto analayst and tinkerer who becomes obsessed … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An all-star Animated tale of “The King of Kings,” as told by Charles Dickens

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The King of Kings” is a compact, cute Life of Jesus served up in animated form for parents to take their kids to this Easter. An all-star voice cast decorates a beautifully animated offering from Angel Studios, produced as the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “A Minecraft Movie,” whether we need it or not

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Say this much for Warner Brothers. They got the tone for “Minecraft” right. The studio that turned Scandinavian Lego building block toys into blockbuster animated movies goes all juvenile in adapting Sweden’s biggest gift to pop culture since ABBA, and … Continue reading →

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