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Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Exiled Man and Woman wrestle with their Pasts on “The Silent Planet”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Silent Planet” is a sci-fi allegory that attempts to take the pulse of the human condition in our current, fear-immigrants moment and doesn’t quite come off. One can appreciate the cleverness of seeing The Tablelands in Canada’s Gros Morne … Continue reading →

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Book Review — “The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspirations Behind the Iconic Films”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

This fall’s North American box office success of such anime franchises as “Chainsaw Man” and “Demon Slayer” and the vast collection of such titles on offer from Netflix underscore the soaring popularity and international appeal of the Japanese animated art … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dolph and Michael Jai White roll their eyes at the Dork who says he’s “the best” — “Exit Protocol”

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’d think these sorts of things would be figured out at a table read, if not in the audition. Give your leading man his pages, make him read some of the fifth rate Raymond Chandler “tough guy” voice-over narration you … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: Elle Fanning and “Predator: Badlands” open big, “Nuremberg,” “Sarah’s Oil,””Christy” and “Die My Love” not so much

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adding the dismembered android upper half of Elle Fanning to the ancient but not-quite-played-out “Predator” franchise is paying off as it rolled up some $14 million+ Thursday night and Friday, on its way to a $40 million opening weekend. Deadline.com … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A “Caterpillar” figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Caterpillar” presents itself as a gay man’s documentary journey of self-discovery, when it’s really about body dysphoria/dysmorphia and faddish cosmetic surgery taken to its extreme. David Taylor, a Miami hairdresser is biracial, wrestling with a troubled childhood, acceptance and obsessive … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Postpartum as Improv Exercise — “Die My Love”

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Most movies come to you, but challenging ones make you come to them. Even when they’re assaulting you in your seat, they demand your attention, understanding and interpretation to come off. “Die My Love” is a broken romance and deep … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Relearning the lessons of “Nuremberg”

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

The stakes could not have been higher. The bloodiest war in history had just been brought to an end, and not all the “monsters” who launched it and conceived and carried out the worst genocide in human history had been … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Regretting You” edges “Black Phone 2” in battles for scrap, “Bugonia” underwhelms, The Boss goes Bust

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Halloween, The World Series, no kiddie film with any traction, no fresh horror that gets attention, no thrillers or comic book releases and “Wicked” is waiting until Thanksgiving. That makes for a very empty cineplex on the first weekend of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Farrell hedges his bets on “Ballad of a Small Player”

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

The latest turn in the twisty, quixotic career of Colin Farrell is a surreal and supernatural gambling tale of one not-quite-posh poseur’s days of reckoning when every debt, every losing streak, every health problem and every crime comes due. “Ballad … Continue reading →

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