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Movie Review: Colman Domingo plays an inmate with theatre in his blood at “Sing Sing”

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Colman Domingo and the humanizing act of making theatre co-star in “Sing Sing,” a sometimes moving and often entertaining dramedy about prison inmates who just want to “put on a show.” Domingo and a couple of other professional actors, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Awards contending “The Brutalist” punches above its weight

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Brutalist” is a brutally smart drama for a brutally stupid age. Brady Corbet’s American saga touches on everything from classism and racism to anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as its hero staggers along the jagged edge of American capitalism as … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Keke and SZA live through “One of Them Days” that’s not quite “Friday”

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

With Moms Mabley, Tiffany Haddish and Mo’Nique as my witnesses, I swear Hollywood could’ve gotten a funnier movie out of Keke Palmer by just setting up a camera in front of her whilst she texts, tweets and blurts whatever comes … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Different century, new setting, same old “Wolf Man”

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Universal futzed around with rebooting its classic werewolf horror franchise “Wolf Man” for years, and delayed releasing the latest finished film as well. Perhaps they were hoping more time would pass and we’d all forget the many other incarnations of … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Brit Noir, Warner Bros. style — “They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal)” (1948)

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a flashy, violent British film noir in the classic Warner Bros. fashion, an on-the-lam thriller set in the postwar U.K. underworld where a war hero pays the price for going wrong. “They Made Me A Fugitive,” the film that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Zombie Apocalypse is the least of This Cali Hamlet’s problems — “Hemet, or the Landlady Don’t Drink Tea”

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

The line between a “Z-movie,” a “zero stars” on the one-to-four-star scale, and a very bad one-star C or B movie usually comes down to intent. Did they set out to make a film this awful? Was their motivation or … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Teen Temptress, Femme Fatale, or Victim? “Nahir”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nahir,” a brooding, glamourized and sexed-up account of a notorious Argentine murder case, is a mystery thriller that aims for engrossing and immersive that never falls short of quite watchable along the way. Screenwriter Sofia Wilhelmi and director Hernán Gu … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Accept no Substititute for this Suspsense Masterpiece — “The Wages of Fear” (1953)

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

Stanley Kubrick was among the most famous filmmakers to assert that if you can’t tell what’s happening in a film — the emotions and motivations of the characters and the point of it all — with the sound turned off, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wild West Dinklage chases Juliette Lewis into “The Thicket”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Thicket” is a Western built on archetyepal characters pursuing one another through a forbidding and unforgiving archetypal Western landscape. It’s a wintry fin de siècle “manhunt” for a young woman, and another woman gang-leader named Cut Throat Bill who … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make Yourself Famous, try to be a “Better Man” and not a Pop Star Cliché

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever he means to other parts of the world — his UK homeland in particular — the pop star Robbie Williams falls somewhere on the “Remember him?” to “Who?” sliding scale here in the U.S. So maybe the idea of … Continue reading →

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