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Movie Review: All the World’s a Gamescape — “Grand Theft Hamlet”

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Making art in the middle of the apocalypse is the literal and figurative ethos of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” one of the cleverest “What can we do during lockdown?” pandemic picture projects. A couple of British actors — Sam Crane and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Millennials try to buy-in or opt-out of the “American Meltdown”

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

“American Meltdown” is a comic buddy picture that taps into the deep well of Millennial angst and grievance about a “system” that is finally so broken it doesn’t work for them. At all. Like a lot of fiction and op … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hopkins is “The Efficiency Expert,” but are Crowe, Collette and Mendelsohn getting the ax? (1991)

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Three future stars from Down Under pop off the screen in “The Efficiency Expert,” a delicate, dated and yet timeless fish-out-of-water period piece set in Australia at the birth of the job-cutting “consultant” boom. Toni Collette, impressive and emotional in … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Baby Brian (De Palma) and Baby Bobby (DeNiro) — “Hi, Mom!” (1970)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brian DePalma’s fourth “experimental” indie feature is a time capsule of New York in decay and political disarray. It’s the movie in which his no budget guerilla filmmaking connected with the zeitgeist, and an audience of the young and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Estranged Father and Son find middle ground at the “Chicken Coop”

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Chicken Coop” is a drab indie dramedy about dogmatic parents, children who left home to escape that and “bonding” over home repair as they fight over literally everything else. Decent acting doesn’t atone for low-stakes drama, low-heat scenes and dated, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,” Murnau invents the Vampire Movie (1922)

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

It has been many years since I had seen the original “Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror,” an “inspired by ‘Dracula’” vampire film that truly invented “the vampire movie” when it came out in 1922. In this historic silent masterwork the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Girl Haunts Boy,” a teen romance for tweens

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Here’s an exceptionally mild-mannered Netflix teen romance built around a couple of cute young leads made “stars” by earlier Netflix outings. Peyton List (“Kobra Kai”) plays a flapper teen who swipes a magic ring and dies in 1928, only to … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch underworld’s less of a treat in “Ferry 2”

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Dutch underworld saga of “Ferry” Bouman finishes with something like a flourish in “Ferry 2,” the sequel to a gritty rise-of-a-“Pill King” in the Amsterdam underworld tale. But a lot of what precedes that flash finale is pretty frustrating, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Black Women serve in WWII — “The Six Triple Eight”

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

The only all-Black Women’s Army Corps united to serve in World War II n Europe is fondly remembered in Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight,” a polished, sentimental and old fashioned picture that points out to the culture at large … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Cary Grant Saunters into the Sunset, in his boxers — “Walk Don’t Run” (1966)

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s an inspired silliness to the Technicolor bon bon “Walk Don’t Run,” the final film in Cary Grant’s legendary Hollywood career. Surely a mere screenwriter — TV veteran (“Bewitched”) Sol Saks in this case — can’t have been the one … Continue reading →

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