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Movie Review: Pascal, Reaser, Sewell and Goggins as Hollywood “types” face their future and their humanity when they meet “The Uninvited”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some indie films confound the viewer with a “What did these actors see in THIS?” connundrum. But not “The Uninvited.” What looks like another onanistic Hollywood-skewers-Hollywood dramedy set in a tony Hollywood Hills party is actually a priorities-questioning, expectations-upending and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Dark Period in Korean History Remembered — “Harbin”

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Harbin” is a stately, somewhat tense Korean period piece bathed in the gloom that hangs over many an espionage thriller. Director and co-writer Woo Min-ho already has conventional thrillers (“The Drug King”), period piece thrillers (“The Man Standing Next”) and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: All Cuisine’d up, “Waiting for Dalí “

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

The quality of twee is often strained, the Bard wryly noted. A tragedy, a comedy or even a romantic comedy is within the reach of some writers and screenwriters. But hitting that feather-weight sweet spot between droll and cute is … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Fatal Finnish Funny Business comes to “Little Siberia”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A village pastor finds himself guarding a possibly valuable meteorite, fighting off those who covet it and questioning his faith and his wife — who is pregnant with a baby he’s sure isn’t his — in the dark and daft … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Can “The Ugly Stepsister” make that Glass Slipper fit?

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Yes, let’s have a “Cinderella” without the spin. Pound home the “princess” as beauty bias messaging with body horror driven by body dysphoria. And make it splatter film bloody, sexually explicit and occasionally funny — laughs with a grimace of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: R. Patts is Labor at its Most Disposable — “Mickey 17”

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film is an arch sci-fi parable about the troubled world we live in. An Earth-born colonist/laborer on the distant planet Nilfheim has been recruited by a charismatic but dimwitted poseur/ex-senator/cult-leader whose “propogate the species” … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Still a hoot — Mssr. Belmondo’s Holiday — “That Man from Rio (L’homme de Rio)” (1964)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adrien, dashing from 1960s Rio de Janiero to Brasilia, the then new capital of Brazil, in a pink 1929 Chrysler 75 adored with green stars, pulls over at the first modernist police station he spies. He steps out of the … Continue reading →

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