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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” holds off “Accountant 2,” ancient “Revenge of the Sith” slips by “Minecraft,” “Until Dawn” bombs

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

The crowd pleasing sequel to Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin thriller “The Accountant” didn’t have much of a chance against Ryan Coogler’s “Get Out” sized horror phenomenon, “Sinners.” “Sinners” is having a near-historic “hold” on its second weekend. After opening with … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: It’s game-over if you can’t make it “Until Dawn”

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You could probably tell in a couple of minutes that this weekend’s cinematic sacrificial lamb to the horror gods is based on a video game without being reminded that “Until Dawn” was born on Playstation in the opening credits. Stock … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Gay Fantasia about Honest Abe’s Same Sex Romance — “Lavender Men”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Lavender Men” is an ambitious but meandering and indulgent indie film failure. It’s not the subject matter that does it in, as it’s another film (“Lover of Men”) and play (“Oh, Mary!”) that dives into the notion that Abraham Lincoln … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” lures the horror/Coogler/Jordan faithful, bests “Minecraft”

Posted on April 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

It was a VERY Good Friday, Saturday AND Sunday for Warner Bros, which saw its new horror release “Sinners” do decent, not world-beating business Thursday afternoon and evening ($4.7 million), but added another $14 million to Friday itself to “open” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ambitious “Sinners” fails to transcend genre

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Black Panther,” “Creed” and “Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler sets his sights on horror with “Sinners,” a sprawling Depression Era tale of race, religion and “The Devil’s Music,” the blues. Coogler immerses us in the early ’30s South where a … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Minecraft” digs up all the Gold — A $162 million+ opening weekend

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

As much of the country and even the world flips out over the Trump-crashed stock market, and millions are summoned to a Saturday of thousands of protest marches on the dismantling of American democracy, video game fans are filling the … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” can’t fight off “A Working Man,” “Woman in the Yard” embarrasses “Death of a Unicorn”

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Disney’s big-but-hardly-huge live action “Snow White” cleared the $50 million mark on its first week in release, and should add another $13 million+ on its second weekend, based on Friday’s turnout. But will it remain the top draw at the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Can “The Ugly Stepsister” make that Glass Slipper fit?

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Yes, let’s have a “Cinderella” without the spin. Pound home the “princess” as beauty bias messaging with body horror driven by body dysphoria. And make it splatter film bloody, sexually explicit and occasionally funny — laughs with a grimace of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bill Skarsgård gets “Locked” in that one car he should never have tried to steal

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’ve seen guys like this in many a city throughout the world. They stroll down a less busy street, eyes darting back and forth under their hoodies, tried to look casual as they take hold of every car door handle … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Noisy Zombies spoil the Peace and Quiet of “Silent Zone”

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was a time when zombies were slow and the movies about them were quick. The walking dead would lurch into sight and characters would have to go out of their way to trip or somehow be trapped by the … Continue reading →

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