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BOX OFFICE: “Weapons” brandishes another $22, “Nobody 2” scares nobody after another big “Freakier Friday”

Posted on August 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nobody 2” is a classic “more of the same” sequel to an unlikely action hit starring unlikely action hero Bob Odenkirk. Others were more generous reviewing this second helping of a 2021 (right after Covid) hit than I was. The … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Bad Guys” and “Naked Gun” cops can’t catch “Fantastic Four”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

A hyped-to-death comedy reboot, a smart horror picture and an animated sequel were no match for Mighty Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” snore, as that comic book reboot managed another $40 million on its second weekend at the box … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Brie and Franco find being “Together” can get horrifically out of hand

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

The sometimes-excruciating existential pain of “coupling” becomes physical torture — played-for-laughs — in the darkly comical “Together,” a bloody “body horror” rom-com about commitment. Writer-director Michael Shanks, making his feature directing debut, pairs up Allison Brie and Dave Franco as … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Muay Thai vs Zombies — “Ziam”

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Nothing to see here, just another country and another culture coping with the Zombie Apocalypse. “Ziam” is basically a test for those of us committed to watching any thriller featuring Muay Thai martial artists facing and dispensing with hordes of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Korean Catholics have their own way of Exorcising Demons — “The Priests”

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well Go USA is about to unleash the sequel to the Korean exorcism thriller “The Priests,” titled “Dark Nuns,” in North America. So they figured they’d put the original 2015 hit out there for people who want to catch. Not … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “M3GAN 2.0,” an Update Nobody Needed

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A tip of the hat to Ivana Sakhno, who gives one of the more convincingly metallic turns as a woman-playing a robot in “M3GAN 2.0,” a killer robot sequel that leans even harder into well-founded AI phobia. She is Maria … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s a little known truth of indie film sets that the “indier” the film, the less likely you’ll be able to tell the cast from the crew when visiting the shoot. I came to this conclusion covering such low budget, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Tour of Jolly Olde Zombieland “28 Years Later”

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

It begins with children watching the “Teletubbies” on the tube, reaching for a more innocent time. But the TV is just a distraction. Parents have parked their kids in front of it while they cope with the awful news they’ve … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Teen Seeks Answers about the Murderer of his dreams — “Soul Reaper”

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not just ghost stories from the Indonesian cinema that make their to the West. But of all the genre thrillers, romances, histories and action pix bought for distribution, financed by Netflix or however they’re exported, it strikes me that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Bring Her Back” — Horror One Suffers Through rather than Relishes

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not a blanket condemnation to say I could not wait for “Bring Her Back,” the excruciating new film from the co-directors of “Talk to Me,” to come to an end. One can recognize its unflinching, grisly details and unsparing … Continue reading →

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