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Classic Film Review: Jean-Pierre Melville is one of “Two Men in Manhattan” (1959)

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sometimes, the most accurate mirrors we face are held up to us by others. Consider the flood of viral stories about America and those visiting it during the World Cup — the German who sang our praises and found himself … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”

Posted on June 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dios Mio! Dazzling “I Am Frankelda” loses the Plot

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

The cotton tufts of simulated fog that roll into the stop-motion animated terrors of “I Am Frankelda” can resemble hands of the damned frantically reaching up from the depths of whatever lies below. Vividly-colored sets filled with whimsical human (ish) … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Douglas and Morse reminisce about Belize, “Looking Through Water”

Posted on June 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

The best most screen actors can hope for in their dotage is roles that don’t embarrass or seem beneath them. The lucky ones land a decent scripted series or a challenging supporting role on the big screen. But too many … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Life Lived on the Margins on an Island off Ireland — “Man of Aran” (1934)

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

Hard lives the way they used to be lived are the subject of documentarian Robert Flaherty’s classic “Man of Aran,” a fictional film capturing the traditions of the past on Ireland’s Aran Islands in the 1930s. A black and white … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Ladies First” remakes “I’m Not an Easy Man” in Sexist Shades of British

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

One of the most popular Netflix films from France, “I’m Not an Easy Man” earns a British-accented remake with “Ladies First,” a gender-reversing Sacha Baron Cohen/Rosamund Pike rom-com. Seems to me I traded cars on the review traffic from the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Even the most Righteous Revenge has a Cost — “Is God Is”

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Alaesha Harris makes a furious feature film debut with “Is God Is,” an ugly, unblinking slice of African American Gothic horror as relevant as a headline and as timeless as a parable. It’s about two fire-scarred sisters “always on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Revolution will be Shoplifted– “I Love Boosters”

Posted on May 23, 2026 by Roger Moore

Capitalism’s end game is taunted and satirized in “I Love Boosters,” a loopy, anarchic comedy about shoplifting, fashion, media mass indoctrination and This Cultural Moment. The latest from the rapper and songwriter turned filmmaker Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”) … Continue reading →

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