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BOX OFFICE: “Street Fighter” opens Well, not Great, Elizabeth Holmes Goes to Jail Doc makes Bank

Posted on October 17, 2026 by Roger Moore

The umpteenth — OK SEVENTH — “Street Fighter” video game film adaptation is opening #1 at the box office, as one might expect. But it’s not doing summer “event” movie numbers, or making holiday weekend blockbuster bank. It’s doing good … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald”

Posted on October 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

He was a very smart guy who played dumb to the bitter end. He repeatedly claimed he’d dropped out of high school (he graduated at 14) and that he’d never been to college (he went to two). Norm Macdonald would … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Sense and Sensibility,” The Next Generation

Posted on October 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

Every era deserves its own take on Jane Austen, and 2026 gives millennials and Gen Z a go with a new “Sense and Sensibility,” revisiting the oft-revisited novel that Emma Thompson starred in and won an Oscar for scripting in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Harrowing Way to Reconnect with Dad — “Whalefall”

Posted on October 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Whalefall” is a sentimental story of fathers and sons and giants of the briny blue sea. When it’s good, it’s “127 Hours” set inside the mouth and throat of a sperm whale, a terrible life test that makes its hero … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Operation Kabul” to the Rescue

Posted on October 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

Well, damn. Who’d have guessed that the best combat thriller about the evacuation and fall of Kabul, Afghanistan would be Hungarian, and about Hungarian NATO troops battling to get Hungarian nationals and embassy staff out of that benighted country? “Operation … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Can “Animals” Stick the Landing?

Posted on October 10, 2026 by Roger Moore

Isn’t it about time that America’s film schools added a “How to End Your Movie” course to their curricula? I know that they don’t have such “Finishing” or “Stick the Landing” stand-alone tutorials set up, and not just from covering … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Remembering “Tenzing” and Hillary and their Ascent of Everest

Posted on October 9, 2026 by Roger Moore

The viewer keeps waiting for “Tenzing,” the new bio-drama of the life of “the other man” to be the first to summit Mount Everest, to take a false step. But director Jennifer Peedom comes from documentaries and she’s made films … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Don’t Move” or the Creature in the Creature Feature will Get You

Posted on October 6, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Don’t Move” begins with a tragedy so vivid and horrific it sets us up for a much better thriller than the movie that follows. A competent, can-do mother braves the flames of a seedy amusement park haunted house horror ride … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Hole Even “Digger” Cruise Can’t Shovel His Way Out Of

Posted on October 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

One has to appreciate the huge swing four-time Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his Oscarless star Tom Cruise took with their climate crisis and culture satire “Digger.” But it’s still a swing and an epic miss. The director of … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: The Duke, Quakers and the Original “Angel and the Badman” (1947)

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

John Wayne was on the cusp of his career peak when he struck off on his own and produced and starred in “Angel and the Badman,” a project written and directed by James Edward Grant, who’d become Wayne’s confidante and … Continue reading →

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