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Movie Review: A New Yorker widowed by a Police Shooting seeks Justice in “Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

An infamous police shooting leads to trials and a search for justice that doesn’t end in a courtroom in “Aftershock” The Nicole P. Bell Story.” It’s a sturdy, often moving fil built aroud Rayven Symone Ferrell’s affecting performance in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the “Playdate” from Hell

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The most violent children’s entertainment since “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Kevin James, features Isla Fisher as leader of a hard-drinking “gang” of soccer moms and gives the inventive character player Alan Tudyck his best shot at impersonating and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Australia’s Oscar hopes rely on Mongolians who know “The Wolves Always Come at Night”

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Wolves Always Come at Night” is an evocative immersion in a dying way of life, that of nomadic Mongolian goat, horse and cattle herders. Gabrielle Brady’s documentary captures the stark beauty of the treeless brownscape of the Mongolian steppes, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Mother’s Past and Present Blur “When Fall is Coming”

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

François Ozon has to be the French cinema’s premier poker player. With his genre-bending/expectations-upending dramas (“Everything Went Fine”), dramedies (“In the House”), feminist comedies (“Potiche”) and musical drama mysteries (“8 Women”), you’d hate to be seated at the same table … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Reporter digs into government scandals real and staged — “Defence of the Realm” (1985)

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s odd to think of the ’80s as a movie decade in which we can bandy the phrase “They don’t make’em like that any more” about. Hollywood’s blockbuster obsession almost wholly took over, and the roman numeralization of cinema “franchises” … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Legendary Thai Gangster “Tee Yai” earns a Weak Tea Action Bio-pic, “Born to be Bad”

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

For a trigger-happy bank robber, convincing the public and cops that your exploits are “magical,” that you have supernatural protections, would seem like the ultimate edge. Convince law enforcement that bullets pass right through you, that arresting and handcuffing is … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Being Eddie” is how Murphy wants you to See Him

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eddie Murphy has a lot to be satisfied with. A gifted mimic turned overnight stand-up star, famous since his teen years on “Saturday Night Live,” a ground-breaking African American superstar of the screen, for decades one of the biggest box … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Now You See Me” out sprints “Running Man,” “Predator Badlands” drops to third

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

A franchise revival, a remake and a big sci-fi/monster holdover walk into a bar… This weekend’s box office isn’t one for the record books, as nothing is making Marvel/Pixar/”Avatar” money in a $12-$20 ticket environment. But it does show why … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Torch and a Card Trick are passed to a new Generation — “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

It helps to think of the “Now You See Me” film franchise as a manga that dodged the whole anime series then anime movie “product” assembly line. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” brought on that epiphany. Revived a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Running Man” Stumbles into a Dead End

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

About thirty minutes into the Glen Powell/Edgar Wright remake of “The Running Man” I thought “This is kind of working.” I invested in this updating of Stephen King’s dytopian sci-fi horror for the age of ICE, fascism and murderously amoral … Continue reading →

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