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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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Movie Review: Pop Starlet Samara just keeps pushing Nutty Fan’s “love” over the “Borderline”

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Samara Weaving is a Madonna-esque pop superstar stalked by Ray Nicholson in his father Jack’s full “Here’s JOHNNY!” nutjob mode in “Borderline,” a violent and crazed comedy about celebrity and the delusions it feeds to those who have it and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Norwegian remake follows a drunken, aimless skier on “The Wrong Track”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the more disillusioning aspects of the Golden Age of Content is the way Netflix repurposes intellectual property and remakes films for different markets. Spanish films get almost pointless Mexican or Argentine remakes, and vice versa. And it all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dito Montiel rounds up Murray, Coolidge, Davidson, Union and Ed Harris as “Riff Raff”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

The trailers hint that there might be laughs, that the tone of “Riff Raff” — a dark and bloody comedy about hit men, family, and how those two only exist together in the movies — could very well come off. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: DIY Cinema at its Indian Best — “Superboys of Malegaon”

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

A plucky crew of India’s working poor, tired of being busted for pirating movies, set out to make their own in the amusing and engaging true-story dramedy “Superboys of Malegaon.” They’re do-it-yourselfers of the most adorable variety, turning a bicycle … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cute and sweet and challenging — REALLY challenging — “The Unbreakable Boy”

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the years since Hollywood “discovered” autism, the tendency has been for movies to treat those carrying this burden as more “Rain Man” quirky and cute than “Rain Man” challenging. Symptoms and behaviors might come and go as the plot … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cupid lets Mexican Couple Break Up in the Past, “With You in the Future (Contigo en el futuro)”

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Mexican romantic fantasy “With You in the Future” pretty much blows the “fantasy” part of its equation. A sentimental “Peggy Sue Got Married/It’s a Wonderful Life” riff with a sprinkling of “Back to the Future,” “Contigo en el futuro” … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Herzog’s “Cannes Darling” “Woyzek” (1979)

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

The great German director Werner Herzog and his muse, Klaus Kinski, marched through three films together in their peak years, 1978-82. “Nosferatu the Vampyr” was a hit, and “Fitzcarraldo” was a career-defining epic for both director and star, an ordeal … Continue reading →

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