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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” holds off “Accountant 2,” ancient “Revenge of the Sith” slips by “Minecraft,” “Until Dawn” bombs

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

The crowd pleasing sequel to Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin thriller “The Accountant” didn’t have much of a chance against Ryan Coogler’s “Get Out” sized horror phenomenon, “Sinners.” “Sinners” is having a near-historic “hold” on its second weekend. After opening with … 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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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Minecraft” digs up all the Gold — A $162 million+ opening weekend

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

As much of the country and even the world flips out over the Trump-crashed stock market, and millions are summoned to a Saturday of thousands of protest marches on the dismantling of American democracy, video game fans are filling the … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Is this any way to run “The Studio?”

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

If you’re a movie buff, of COURSE you’re loading up that trial subscription to Apple TV+ to catch “The Studio,” a cinema-loving and best-joke-on-set-wins silly spin on the messy way movies are made and the sniveling, lying cowards who make … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: Nepo Baby “Novocaine” feels the pain, “Mickey 17” falls off but ties “Black Bag”

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Weekends like this one explain exactly why Hollywood got so obsessed with franchises, pre-sold content “brands” and the like. They’re expecting a movie based on the popular but puerile video game “Minecraft” starring Jack Black to open over $60 million … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” races…off a cliff, “Monkey” shines, “Unbreakable Boy” stumbles

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Deadline.com and others have been predicting an almost healthy second weekend for “Captain America: Brave New World.” And “awareness” was so high on Neon’s hyped-to-high-heavens horror tale from Stephen King, “The Monkey,” that “the sky’s the limit” predictions rattled out … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: George C. Scott is the “Transporter” in a much older BMW for “The Last Run” (1971)

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Last Run” is a tidy if not exactly tight template for generations of “driver” movies to come. Here is George C. Scott as the original “Transporter,” taking out and thrashing a collectible BMW from Portugal to the Pyrnees all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: More Teased than Terrified by What’s Behind that “Cellar Door”

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Cellar Door” is an attempt at the thriller-as-parable, a suspenseful story about a troubled couple tested by temptation and the ugly “answers” they might find by peeking behind that which they’ve been warned to never open, the cellar door of … Continue reading →

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