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Movie Review: Eyes Off the Prize? Civil Rights Justice “By Any Means”

Posted on September 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

The all-too-human lust for vengeance collides with the faint hope for justice in “By Any Means,” a Civil Rights thriller set in the “Mississippi Burning” timeline. It’s a violent “true enough for Hollywood” tale of torture and summary executions in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wahlberg, Key, Lakeith and Shalhoub “Play Dirty” in Shane Black-land

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Shane Black? Glib one-liners and glib gunplay? Bigger and bigger action, with a bigger and bigger bodycounts? The actor turned writer and writer-director who peaked with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” made his way to a “comeback” with “The Nice Guys” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dockery figures out Grace and Wahlberg are each a “Flight Risk”

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was never any doubt that, “canceled-“or-uncanceled, Mel Gibson has skills as a director. He knows how to cast, block, shoot and edit a thriller, be it historic or generically modern. But what we’ve allowed ourselves to question during his … Continue reading →

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