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Classic Film Review: Black and White Deadpan from the Golden Age of “Indie” — “Down by Law” (1986)

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Memory always gets the last cut in editing any beloved classic film we embraced, way back when. I recall the totality of writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s work in his indie make-or-break years, the 1980s — the impromptu road trip to Florida … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wahlberg, Key, Lakeith and Shalhoub “Play Dirty” in Shane Black-land

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Shane Black? Glib one-liners and glib gunplay? Bigger and bigger action, with a bigger and bigger bodycounts? The actor turned writer and writer-director who peaked with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” made his way to a “comeback” with “The Nice Guys” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Consequences of Renewing the Nuclear Option — “A House of Dynamite”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You expect a movie about the renewed Cold War and its radioactive endgame to be dispiriting, just in that “Here we go again/Been there, barely survived that” sense. But the timing of Kathryn Bigelow’s grim, cautionary and “Don’t come here … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Springsteen” makes “Nebraska” — “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Self-revealing, self-examining, self-mythologizing, self-indulgent and self-destructive, those are all phrases that can apply to Bruce Springsteen’s seminal, uncompromising and defiantly anti-commercial album “Nebraska.” It can’t be called the LP that “made him.” But this critically-acclaimed smash from 1982 underscored the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Steinbeck played by MGM Stars in Brownface — “Tortilla Flat”(1942)

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

The lightest of heart and most lightly regarded classic John Steinbeck adaptation, “Tortilla Flat” (1942) came by its “underrated comedy” reputation with the passing years. It’s an ethnic farce by a writer with an eye, ear and empathy for the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Louis Mandylor commits another War (Movie) Atrocity — “Prisoner of War”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Twee Brit Romance with a Bittersweet Taste, “The Ballad of Wallis Island”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ever so slight and so very, very British, “The Ballad of Wallis Island” passes the time like reading P.G. Wodehouse with a cup of Earl Grey on a rainy autumn afternoon. A couple of supporting players from British TV cooked … 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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Documentary Review — Home Movies as Comedy Couples Counseling, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost”

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

They were the hottest comic “double act” of their day. Stiller & Meara were never as hip as Nichols and May, but reliably funny, TV (“family audience”) friendly and just edgy enough to give the live New York studio audiences … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Astronaut” Came Home with More than She Bargained For

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

The new sci-fi thriller “The Astronaut” is a somewhat ungainly marriage of “Alien” and “E.T.” It begins with mystery and danger and the best of intentions. But the longer the marriage goes on, the worse things get. Kate Mara has … Continue reading →

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