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Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)

Posted on August 26, 2026 by Roger Moore

It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Ex-cop Scrambles Up and Down and all around Paris “Ad Vitam”

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Latin title “Ad Vitam” doesn’t translate to “over the top,” which might be the biggest letdown in this brisk — once it gets going — French action picture. A star vehicle conceived by Gullaume Canet, (“All Time High”), a … 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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