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Netflixable? French actors, directors and Venus the Wild Boar yell “Call My Agent! The Movie”

Posted on September 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

A movie spun-off of a TV series is inevitably going to be more rewarding to fans of that series who know all the back stories of the characters and get the jokes that come from being that character, or breaking … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Mr. Navel Gazing “How To” Kvetches through “The History of Concrete”

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Roger Moore

“The History of Concrete” is an amusing amble through that construction material’s lineage, especially as it pertains to New York. And New Yorkers. It’s by doc filmmaker/essayist John Wilson, which should tell you its light tone and short-attention-span aimlessness, if … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Just Close the Curtains on this “Knightfall”

Posted on September 10, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Knightfall,” the latest title of a thriller that had other working titles, is a B, C or D movie starring the dye-job-fools-no-one son of the funniest James Bond and a little known actress who looks as if she was cast … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy (?) with Organ Donation and a Big Body Count — “Runner”

Posted on September 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

The distributing studios may sweat over the fact that MGM’s “Runner” showed up on streaming just as Angel Studios’ “The Runner” was trotting into theaters. One stars Gal Gadot as a lawyer/mother sprinting across London to murder a prosecution witness … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Godawful Gal can’t get “The Runner” up to Speed

Posted on September 3, 2026 by Roger Moore

The star is generally too easy a target when you’re looking for the ways a movie goes wrong. So if we’re cutting Gal Gadot any slack at all for the debacle that “The Runner” turned out to be, let’s zero … Continue reading →

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Series Redux — “Saturday Night Live,” the First Season

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

I’ve been thinking a lot of late about Martin Short’s assertion — in Lawrence Kasdan’s “Life is Short” documentary — that “80 percent of comedy” fails, and the fact that he wasn’t talking just about his own efforts in landing … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hello, Dolly — “9 to 5” becomes a Clarion Call for Working Women

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Classic Film, Controversy, and Wounded Turkish Pride — “Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey”

Posted on August 31, 2026 by Roger Moore

There was a time when movies could create an international furor that could last for years — decades, even. If you think North Korea’s war on Sony over “The Interview,” racist YA sci-fi fans fuming over the fact that Black … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”

Posted on August 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy with “Idiots”

Posted on August 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Idiots” is a buddy comedy with raunchy promise, funny players and no pace. I mean NONE. If this was “Midnight Run,” which it resembles, it’d be “Midnight Stroll.” If it was “The Last Detail,” which also figures in its plotting, … Continue reading →

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