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Movie Review: Even the most Righteous Revenge has a Cost — “Is God Is”

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Alaesha Harris makes a furious feature film debut with “Is God Is,” an ugly, unblinking slice of African American Gothic horror as relevant as a headline and as timeless as a parable. It’s about two fire-scarred sisters “always on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Dazzling Tedium

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

James Cameron was very much running out of interesting things to say and show in his “Avatar” franchise with the second movie, “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The third film, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” confirms that fear and adds on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Forgettable and Regretable –“Ella McCay”

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Ella McCay” is a blandly-titled collection of randomly-scripted expressions of feelings, political frustration, character failings and over-acted monologues interrupting insufferable and incessant voice-over narration. Its two tedious and under-edited hours play like an aimless attempt at a feel good streaming … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Torch and a Card Trick are passed to a new Generation — “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

It helps to think of the “Now You See Me” film franchise as a manga that dodged the whole anime series then anime movie “product” assembly line. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” brought on that epiphany. Revived a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: The “Mr. Scorsese” Saga in Five Parts

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Film buffs idolize him. Film students long to become him. His fellow filmmakers emulate him. Actors long to work with him. And film journalists relish the chance to bask in his presence and find something to ask or say to … Continue reading →

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Oft imitated, never bettered, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Diane Keaton has died. And good heavens, how do you even BEGIN an appreciation of this Oscar winning icon’s career? She came to fame as Woody Allen’s muse, enjoyed a career that lasted three full and fulfilling acts and lived … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Faithful to the End, and Beyond — Who’s a “Good Boy?”

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Good Boy” is elemental horror — a tale of a sick man under natural and supernatural assault — and his dog. And the marvel of this movie is the performance by that real live dog. Director Ben Leonberg picked up … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story”

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

The stakes could not be higher. The sneering gang of armed men burst into the house, punch and abuse the inhabitants and ransack the place looking for “the money.” The husband is bloodied and the pregnant wife slapped around, all … Continue reading →

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