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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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Classic Film Review: “El Cid” (1961 — Still a Stiff?

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Roger Moore

Yup. That’s the answer to the rhetorical question posed by that bad-pun headline. Honestly, I’ve never understood any of the adoring or merely “tolerant” reviews of “El Cid,” a corpse of a corpse-on-horseback “history.” Charlton Heston, at his Big Man … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Shailene’s on the hunt for the “Unabomber”

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

The difference between “a true story” and “inspired by a true story/true events” is laid bare in “Unabomber,” an account of the tail end of the hunt for mad mail bomber Ted Kaczynski. The heroine, played by Shailene Woodley, is … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Cinema as Seen from the Projection Booth — “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”

Posted on September 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

You probably missed this sprawling, feel-good-about-cinema’s-future Australian documentary “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey” when it made the rounds of film festivals and earned a limited release a couple of years back. Celluloid purists certainly wouldn’t have. Australian projectionist turned doc-maker … Continue reading →

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