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Movie Review: Lost in Dementia and Memory Care, seeking that “Familiar Touch”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Familiar Touch” is a simple, documdrama-real film of frank honesty and sensitivity about dementia and adjusting to life in Memory Care. If you’re fortunate enough to not know that label, describing the wing or floor of any nursing home or … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Animated Early Life of a Great Artist — “Hola, Frida”

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Hola, Frida” is a charming animated imagining of the early years of the great Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Adapted from a book by Sophie Faucher, this Canadian/Quebecois production takes the tidbit that Kahlo had an imaginary friend as a little … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A grieving child sees her monstrous “Sketch” come to life

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Sketch” is a children’s film, a “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Where the Wild Things Are” variation about a child’s fantasy life — angry, monstrous drawings sketched in reaction to grief — invading her real world. Aspiring artist Amber (Bianca Belle) isn’t … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Damn Right “She Rides Shotgun”

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

“She Rides Shotgun” is a gripping A-list B-movie, a morally ambigious and illogically logical thriller for our amoral, illogical times. Based on a novel by Ben Harper, Nick Rowland’s film grabs a solid, time-proven scenario — a child, on the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Musicians” become a reluctant String Quartet

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Musicians” is a droll comedy about four string highly-strung string players who must come together as a “quartet” to perform an original composition on four legendary instruments for a worldwide classical music TV audience. If I haven’t scared you … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Superman” soars on, “Last Summer,” “Smurfs” underwhelm and “Eddington” bombs

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

The horror audience has proven a hard sell in the post-COVID movie-going marketplace. New titles that reliably opened in the low to mid $teens made cheap horror productions a staple of most every studio’s release slate. And franchises could reliably … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A COVID/BLM Protests/Trumpism-Conspiracy allegory set in “Eddington,” New Mexico

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s a veritable NRA convention of ordnance discharged in “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s All American parable of “How did we get here?” But the one weapon not discharged is the most apt metaphor for the latest from the writer/director of “Midsommar,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Spielberg’s Daughter Directs “Please Don’t Feed the Children”

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Many an aspiring filmmaker looks to horror as her or his way of launching a career in Hollywood. Get your hands on a generic script, finance a thriller on the cheap, deliver a shock or two and show’em what you’ve … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A French bull-“racer” starts finds empathy with the “Animale”

Posted on July 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Animale” is an intriguing French body horror thriller set in Camargue, the bull fighting capital of France. The first local woman to enter the ring with the young men who tempt, chase and are chased by local bulls starts to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: If the Priests Aren’t Up to it, “Dark Nuns” Will Handle this Exorcism

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Back in the olden days, a local archdiosce might appeal to the Vatican for a little help when it came to demonic possession of good Catholic folk in their care. Before you could say “La plume de ma tante!” Max … Continue reading →

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