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Series Review: Nic Cage’s a Private Eye Ensnared in “Spider-Noir”

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

Nicolas Cage dons the hat, mask, leather and goggles and plunges straight into the Spider-Verse in “Spider-Noir,” the latest Marvel spin-off to earn a series treatment. An appearance previewed way back in the animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” predicated on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: This “Fantastic Four” take their stumbling, humorless “First Steps”

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Comic book cinema goes Mid Century Marvel for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” a sleek and gorgeous looking reboot of this franchise that harks back to Fantastic 4 comic and TV cartoon’s heyday. The film’s true star is production designer … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Marvel’s New “A” Team earns its asterisk — “Thunderbolts*”

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

It takes a solid hour to get going, and pretty much as long to identify its characters. Good luck if you buy a ticket and show up without more background than you typically need to know for a comic book … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Krap on a kracker? “Kraven the Hunter”

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

Aaron Taylor-Johnson gets gym-jacked one more time, Russell Crowe auditions for a future Ernest Hemingway at his burliest bio-pic and Alessadro Nivolla trots out the silliest supervillain voice since John Malkovich in “Rounders” for “Kraven the Hunter,” a misguided mess … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Venom” loses HALF of its fangs, “Here” is barely There, “Absolution” can’t pay for its sins

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

A steep drop-off for the final film of Tom Hardy’s “Venom” trilogy was always in order. These movies have sucked, and by the second weekend, the supply of filmgoers who might go plunges and “repeat business,” even for comic book … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Venom: The Last Dance” opens at $52, not the blowout/bow-out Hardy’s Boys and Girls Hoped For

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Roger Moore

UPDATED FINAL SUNDAY NOON from @TheNumbers feed. A lot of things are distracting America from the idea of “We MUST go see the third ‘Venom’ movie” this weekend. Baseball’s World Series, other sports, fall leaves reaching their “peak” and politics … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Venom: The Last Dance,” and Thank God for That

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Well, that’s enough of THAT, thank-you very much. Maybe now that the steadily deteriorating Marvel franchise “Venom” has stuck out its tooth-ringed tongue one last time, we can get our Tom Hardy back. The actor who made his mark in … Continue reading →

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