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Movie Review: Irish Hitman tries to retire in 1990s NYC — “The Mick and the Trick”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

The accents are cartoonish, the performances broad, the situations silly and the blood and bullets are everywhere in “The Mick and the Trick,” a lunkheaded action comedy about a hitman’s “retirement plan.” Actor turned writer-director Tom DeNucci doesn’t shake his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Murderous thieves hunt “pedos” — “Filthy Animals”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Roger Moore

There may be a point to James T. North’s “Filthy Animals,” a tale of pedophile-hunting vigilantism and exploited employee revenge in the San Pedro, Lomita corner of Greater Los Angeles. If there is, North makes it ham-fistedly and in an … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Clumsy Whodunit within a Whodunit stuck in a “Glass Casa”

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

A killer “Glass House” location and pretty much nothing else recommend “Glass Casa.” It’s a comic thriller whose clumsy structure, limp performances and forgettable dialogue do nothing to separate it from the pack of similar movies that trap a bunch … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: John Ford takes the rep company, and no “stars,” to Monument Valley for “Wagon Master” (1950)

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Wagon Master” was perhaps the truest test of the concept of “star director” of John Ford’s career. The iconic Irishman who came to America and made Westerns was finishing up his “cavalry trilogy (“Fort Apache,” “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Doc Dad figures out that “Devils Stay” with Transplanted Organs

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Devils Stay” is an occasionally chilling genre thriller primarily of interest for depicting a Korean Catholic exorcism and its aftermath. A teen girl wrenched about violently, floating in the air as Latin rites and expulsion prayers are said over her, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Mary” inspires a Biblical biopic

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Long before Joseph of Nazareth reveals himself to be an action hero, saving the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus from rapacious Romans, the not-entirely-Biblical, not-exactly historical bio-pic “Mary” has lost its way. It’s not the great Sir Anthony Hopkins … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Remembering an earlier coup attempt, an armed insurrection by “The Order”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s not the cars and the clothes that establish “The Order” as a period piece. It’s the notion of Federal law enforcement aggressively pursuing violent traitors out to overthrow democracy no matter how indifferent the entitled, selective-enforcement rural sheriffs and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Hungarian doctor discovers the need for antiseptics in the Oscar hopeful “Semmelweis”

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

The medical biopic“Semmelweis“would make a fine double feature paired with the recent Netflix medical history drama “Joy.” Set a century apart, they’re both about a male-dominated medical profession struggling with issues of childbirth. “Joy” is about the long process of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Postwar Poor in Italy ship their kids North on “The Children’s Train”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

World War II put lots of children, all over the world, in mortal danger. Those families that could often put them on trains to escape it. From the Kindertransport of Jewish children from Nazi controlled corners of Europe to the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Prodigal daughter comes home to find she’s been replaced — “You are Not Me”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Spanish thriller “You Are Not Me” takes its sweet, creepy time getting around to stating the obvious. Set and shot in rural Valencia, it’s about a doctor/daughter who’s come home for the holidays, bringing her wife and Black adopted … Continue reading →

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