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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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Robert Redford: 1936-2025

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hard as it might be to believe, there is such a thing as being too “classically handsome” or just entirely too good looking when you’re a movie star. Don’t ask Warren Beatty, whose ambition and range were obvious and whose … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Star on-the-rise Glen Powell goes…to Hulu? “Chad Powers”

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

We’re going to school of how the path to stardom in the streaming era has evolved and splintered in the “White Lotus/Stranger Things” era Sydney Sweeney stands out in a streaming series, blows up in a “Much Ado About Nothing” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Still Married, Still Doomed, “The Roses” (Colman and Cumberbatch) War Again

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

The 36th wedding anniversary is called “The bone-china anniversary,” and no, I’m not just “having a laugh” as the Brits say. I looked it up. That’s not a very flattering label to slap on “The Roses,” a remake of “The … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Post WWI Germans learn there’s no recreating “Eden”

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

The setting is forbidding, the political parable heavy-handed and human nature “inevitable” in “Eden,” Ron Howard’s dip into real history for a sociology lesson that can apply to today. It’s an all-star rendering of a true story of Germans who … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Brie and Franco find being “Together” can get horrifically out of hand

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

The sometimes-excruciating existential pain of “coupling” becomes physical torture — played-for-laughs — in the darkly comical “Together,” a bloody “body horror” rom-com about commitment. Writer-director Michael Shanks, making his feature directing debut, pairs up Allison Brie and Dave Franco as … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch Duo are on the case as “Almost Cops”

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Dutch word for “buddy picture” is “vriendenfilm.” They take their shot at the genre with a cop/buddy action comedy, “Almost Cops,” whose title in Dutch is “Bad Boas,” a cute pun. That’s funnier than anything in this stunningly unsurprising … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Legend Gets his Due as “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted”

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Documentary filmmakers are always looking for a subject that’s colorful and obscure enough to justify the years it sometimes takes to make a non-fiction film about it or them. The guys who made “Swamp Dogg Gets his Pool Painted” had … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “A Wedding Banquet” remake shows us Just How Far We’ve Come

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

More charming than amusing, chosing sentiment over “edge,” the Andrew Ahn remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer cinema classic “The Wedding Banquet” gives the viewer time to reflect on just how much American and world culture have changed in the … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Minecraft” mines more, “King of Kings” opens big, “Amateur” goes pro, “Warfare” cashes in, “Drop” sinks

Posted on April 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Chicken Jockey mania continues at the nation’s multiplexes. No. Seriously. And that is driving “A Minecraft Movie” into the cinematic stratosphere, a runaway hit that should clear $80 million this weekend, when earlier projections had pointed towards a $65 million … Continue reading →

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