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Movie Review: “A Long Walk” on the Road to Nowhere

Posted on September 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

It doesn’t do “The Long Walk” any favors slapping the previews to the remake of “The Running Man” on before the opening credits. “Walk” is “Running” without the running or the amped-up game show “entertainment” elements. The title and the … Continue reading →

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“Most Obnoxious Moviegoers?” Here’s the Latest Poll

Posted on September 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Moviegoing as an experience has had its rough periods of adjustment over the decades. Audiences returning to the cinema in the ’70s and ’80s thanks to the Blockbuster era had to learn they weren’t in their den, where chattering about … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” Forever and Ever, Amen.

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Conjuring” universe staggers and finally folds in on itself with “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” a tedious, stumbling “finale” (perhaps) to a franchise that cannot help but repeat itself. Even the ongoing presence of Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Emmy … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A True Crime tale about an “Unknown Number,” “High School” Catfishing and a Real Villain Hiding in Plain Sight

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

As “true crime” documentaries settle into their podcast-perfected formula, too many of them spend too much time obsessing over their “gotcha.” It’s understandable, as the “You’ll never believe whoREALLYdunnit” twist is both relished and expected by the viewer. But as … 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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