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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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BOX OFFICE: “Minecraft” digs up all the Gold — A $162 million+ opening weekend

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

As much of the country and even the world flips out over the Trump-crashed stock market, and millions are summoned to a Saturday of thousands of protest marches on the dismantling of American democracy, video game fans are filling 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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Movie Review: A Dark Period in Korean History Remembered — “Harbin”

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Harbin” is a stately, somewhat tense Korean period piece bathed in the gloom that hangs over many an espionage thriller. Director and co-writer Woo Min-ho already has conventional thrillers (“The Drug King”), period piece thrillers (“The Man Standing Next”) and … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Is this any way to run “The Studio?”

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

If you’re a movie buff, of COURSE you’re loading up that trial subscription to Apple TV+ to catch “The Studio,” a cinema-loving and best-joke-on-set-wins silly spin on the messy way movies are made and the sniveling, lying cowards who make … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Luis Buñuel serves up Colonialism’s “Death in the Garden” (1956)

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Of all the “star entrances” the classic cinema has given us, from the “Stagecoach” rolling up on stranded John Wayne to Orson Welles, glimpsed in the shadows in “The Third Man” and Marlene Dietrich, dolled up and ready to sing … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” can’t fight off “A Working Man,” “Woman in the Yard” embarrasses “Death of a Unicorn”

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Disney’s big-but-hardly-huge live action “Snow White” cleared the $50 million mark on its first week in release, and should add another $13 million+ on its second weekend, based on Friday’s turnout. But will it remain the top draw at the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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