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BOX OFFICE: Elle Fanning and “Predator: Badlands” open big, “Nuremberg,” “Sarah’s Oil,””Christy” and “Die My Love” not so much

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adding the dismembered android upper half of Elle Fanning to the ancient but not-quite-played-out “Predator” franchise is paying off as it rolled up some $14 million+ Thursday night and Friday, on its way to a $40 million opening weekend. Deadline.com … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A “Caterpillar” figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Caterpillar” presents itself as a gay man’s documentary journey of self-discovery, when it’s really about body dysphoria/dysmorphia and faddish cosmetic surgery taken to its extreme. David Taylor, a Miami hairdresser is biracial, wrestling with a troubled childhood, acceptance and obsessive … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Postpartum as Improv Exercise — “Die My Love”

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Most movies come to you, but challenging ones make you come to them. Even when they’re assaulting you in your seat, they demand your attention, understanding and interpretation to come off. “Die My Love” is a broken romance and deep … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Regretting You” edges “Black Phone 2” in battles for scrap, “Bugonia” underwhelms, The Boss goes Bust

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Halloween, The World Series, no kiddie film with any traction, no fresh horror that gets attention, no thrillers or comic book releases and “Wicked” is waiting until Thanksgiving. That makes for a very empty cineplex on the first weekend of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Yorgos and Emma and Jesse, lost in “Bugonia”

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

The latest from the challenging and celebrated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos might be his most on point satire yet. The director of “The Favorite” and “Poor Things” addresses the intellectual disconnect of modern discourse, the impatient and sometimes brusque way the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wahlberg, Key, Lakeith and Shalhoub “Play Dirty” in Shane Black-land

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Shane Black? Glib one-liners and glib gunplay? Bigger and bigger action, with a bigger and bigger bodycounts? The actor turned writer and writer-director who peaked with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” made his way to a “comeback” with “The Nice Guys” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Consequences of Renewing the Nuclear Option — “A House of Dynamite”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You expect a movie about the renewed Cold War and its radioactive endgame to be dispiriting, just in that “Here we go again/Been there, barely survived that” sense. But the timing of Kathryn Bigelow’s grim, cautionary and “Don’t come here … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Chainsaw Man” anime owns the weekend, “Springsteen,” “Regretting You” and “Black Phone 2” chase second place

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The shrunken state of moviegoing in North America has left the field wide open for films with dedicated fringe audiences to dominate many a box office weekend. “Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc” is the latest Sony Crunchyroll import … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Springsteen” makes “Nebraska” — “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Self-revealing, self-examining, self-mythologizing, self-indulgent and self-destructive, those are all phrases that can apply to Bruce Springsteen’s seminal, uncompromising and defiantly anti-commercial album “Nebraska.” It can’t be called the LP that “made him.” But this critically-acclaimed smash from 1982 underscored the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Louis Mandylor commits another War (Movie) Atrocity — “Prisoner of War”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines … Continue reading →

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