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Classic Film Review: The First Person Diary Doc is born on “Sherman’s March” (1986)

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

It’s hard to remember how “out there” Ross McElwee’s landmark “personal journey” documentary “Sherman’s March” was in 1986. A confessional, cutesie, creepy and revealing snapshot of the South and one privileged movie maker’s revisiting of his romantic past and revelation … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Sad Aftershocks of “Obsession”

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

Months into its hype, inspiring think-piece essays on the feminist underpinnings and the cost of the toxic male gaze do little to prepare you for the actual experience of watching Curry Barker’s “Obsession.” It’s horrific, gruesome at times and grim … 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: Twenty Feet Tall and Still Hiding in the Dark — “The Yeti”

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

“The Yeti” is a low-budget creature-feature that’s terrible on pretty much every level. Badly scripted, wootacting, dreadful effects that have that cast brushing fake snowflakes out of their hair and lit like a teenager’s in-mom’s-closet podcast, it’s an abominable waste … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer”

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sometimes a film title says it all, or at least entirely too much. Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik blunders into that truism all too eagerly with his American feature film debut — a comic thriller he deigned to over-label “Psycho Therapy: … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Injured on a Hike, Pondering what it means “To Die Alone”

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Say this for the indie thriller “To Die Alone.” It certainly punches above its weight in setting, scenery and the way cinematographer Shelby Lee Parks filmed it. Drone shots that traverse a sea of fir trees far into the horizon, … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Horror Icon revisits His Many Touchstones — “Sangre del Toro”

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Guillermo del Toro is not just the fanboy’s fanboy, a comic book collector (“Horror comics, mostly.”) turned Oscar winning horror director. He rivals his idol David Cronenberg as the reigning intellectual of his genre, a thoughtful, philosophical Mexican who knows … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is Gothic horror rendered in the grandest strokes. The expansive, baroque settings are grandeur incarnate, with grandiose performances pitched to fill every pixel of the Grand Guignol frame that the scarlet, grey and gloomy green backdrops … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Astronaut” Came Home with More than She Bargained For

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

The new sci-fi thriller “The Astronaut” is a somewhat ungainly marriage of “Alien” and “E.T.” It begins with mystery and danger and the best of intentions. But the longer the marriage goes on, the worse things get. Kate Mara has … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Haunted Subway Stop lures the Suicidal to Barcelona — “Last Stop: Rocafort St.”

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

A great location is wasted and a true piece of Barcelona lore is exploited and clumsily “explained” in “Last Stop: Rocafort St.,” a supernatural thriller from director and co-writer Luis Prieto. There really is a subway stop where suicides are … Continue reading →

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