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Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” opens big(ish), but underwhelms, “Alto Knights” Bomb

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Is the fact that they cast a Latina actress, Rachel Zegler, as “Snow White” scaring off racist parents? Does knowing Disney chose to CGI its way around casting actual dwarf actors — there are many, and Peter Dinklage is merely … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Snow White” and her Singing CGI Pals Don’t Get the Job Done

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s nothing inherently wrong with Disney’s recent practice of remaking its animated musical classics as live action films. Reviving a timeless story for a new generation and getting more value out of a long-treasured piece of intellectual property is to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: De Niro vs. De Niro in Levinson’s “The Alto Knights”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

For his latest feat, Oscar winning screen legend Robert De Niro plays two roles, as rival Mafia leaders Frank Costello and Vito Genovese at the mob’s late 1950s peak. Another word for “feat” might be “stunt” or “gimmick” in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bill Skarsgård gets “Locked” in that one car he should never have tried to steal

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’ve seen guys like this in many a city throughout the world. They stroll down a less busy street, eyes darting back and forth under their hoodies, tried to look casual as they take hold of every car door handle … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin and Kurt Russell, 1930s Ex-Cons on a “Fools’ Parade” (1971)

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s easy to dismiss the picaresque action comedy “Fool’s Parade” as an “old man movie,” because that was kind of the idea back when it was made. James Stewart was 63 in 1971, when it came out, with a bunch … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Millie Bobby meets The Russo Brothers — “The Electric State”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

If it takes the bottomless checkbook of Netflix to finally make the fangirls and fanboys recognize what merde merchants the filmmaking Russo brothers are, so be it. Famed for making the expensive trains run on time in effects heavy Marvel … 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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Movie Review: A Pop Music Fable trapped in YA Sci-Fi Land –“O’Dessa”

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Generations raised on stories about this or that world/future/universe saved by “The Chosen One” deserve a musical about this post-religion/post Potter fantasy in the flesh. So here’s “O’Dessa,” a close-to-the-present-day dystopian fable about a “Seventh Son” who happens to be … Continue reading →

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