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BOX OFFICE: “Mufasa” and “Sonic” wrangle, “Nosferatu” and “A Complete Unknown” make their Holiday Week/Weekend marks

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The Lion King” prequel “Mufasa” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” have been battling for box office supremacy since Christmas, with Disney’s latest CGI animated outing having a day by day edge, heading towards a $58 million five day “weekend.” “Sonic … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Danny Kaye goes Marxist as “The Inspector General” (1949)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Roger Moore

How might a moviegoer in 1949 have responded to Danny Kaye in the musical version of Gogol’s “The Inspector General?” Watching it anew, my hot take is “It’s a Marx Bros. musical with Kaye trying to play all four Marx … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ladyboss has a taste for being dominated — “Babygirl”

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

Dutch actress-turned-director Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” is an icy, clinical inversion of our idea of masochism and “abuse of power” in the workplace. The director of “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” sets up Nicole Kidman as a “woman on top” at the office, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bob the Bard in Epic strokes, Dylan as “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Boyd Holbrook’s Johnny Cash out-cools, out-swaggers and out hell-raises future Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan in Dylan’s own biopic. I wonder if “A Complete Unknown” director James Mangold ever winced and muttered “Damn” about who he originally cast to star … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: French couple constrained by the limits of “Just the Two of Us”

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Just the Two of Us” is a textbook domestic abuse melodrama, a French film with just enough mystery about it to make us wonder if it will transform into a thriller. Based on a novel by Éric Reinhardt, Valérie Donzelli’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Jackie Chan, in the silly present, in the fantastical past “A Legend”

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

Let the record reflect that Jackie Chan is more limber, nimble and in better faux fighting trim at 70 than you are at 60, 35 or 20, “Boomer,” “Xer,” Millennial or what have you. Hong Kong’s king of martial arts … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Chaplin’s ode to a Dying Corner of Comedy — “Limelight”

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Roger Moore

Memory is a merciful thing when it comes movies. We remember the grand moments in films, the signature bits, and much of what’s less moving, entertaining or important just drifts away. Charlie Chaplin had become Charles Chaplin long before “Limelight,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: When the End Comes, Survivalists rally around “Homestead”

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Roger Moore

By turns paranoid and pollyanna-ish, “Homestead” is a conservative Christian survivalist wish fulfillment fantasy about living through “The End.” The studio that brought us the controversial “Sound of Freedom” serves up an almost bipolar picture packed with MAGA virtue signaling … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Wicked” wins week, “Moana 2” owns another weekend, “Kraven” “worst Marvel opening,” anime “Lord of the Rings” bombs

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

A new superhero movie from the broader “Spider-Man” universe is not luring in a lot of fans on its opening weekend. And the filmed and TV’d to death “Lord of the Rings” has gone about as far as Warner Bros/New … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: An anti-war parable that became a landmark of Japanese cinema — “Ugetsu” (1953)

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

“The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting,” the potter Genjurô tells a noblewoman and patron at one point in the classic film “Ugetsu,” a Medieval fantasy based on the “Rain-Moon Tales” of 18th century writer Ueda … Continue reading →

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