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Documentary Review — Home Movies as Comedy Couples Counseling, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost”

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

They were the hottest comic “double act” of their day. Stiller & Meara were never as hip as Nichols and May, but reliably funny, TV (“family audience”) friendly and just edgy enough to give the live New York studio audiences … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Black Phone 2” gets a (not that) busy signal, “Good Fortune” and “Truth & Treason” pick up spare change

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Black Phone 2” had a middling Thursday night and half-decent Friday, all of which added up toa $10 million+ opening day and a $26.5 million opening weekend. That’s according The Numbers. That topped the 2021 original film’s opening weekend, which … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Astronaut” Came Home with More than She Bargained For

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

The new sci-fi thriller “The Astronaut” is a somewhat ungainly marriage of “Alien” and “E.T.” It begins with mystery and danger and the best of intentions. But the longer the marriage goes on, the worse things get. Kate Mara has … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Have and Have-Not are flipped by a Guardian Angel with “Good Fortune” at his disposal

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Keanu Reeves brings an offhand charm to his guardian angel turn in “Good Fortune,” Aziz Ansari’s season-neutral “A Christmas Carol” parable about America in general and LA in particular as a land of have-a-lots and have-nots. Whatever inspiration the comic … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Haunted Subway Stop lures the Suicidal to Barcelona — “Last Stop: Rocafort St.”

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

A great location is wasted and a true piece of Barcelona lore is exploited and clumsily “explained” in “Last Stop: Rocafort St.,” a supernatural thriller from director and co-writer Luis Prieto. There really is a subway stop where suicides are … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Quintessential Keaton, Parenting with a Feminist Message — “Baby Boom” (1987)

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

The death of Diane Keaton over the weekend had a lot of us poking around streaming services, hunting for something to remind us of what made the Oscar winner an icon of her era. We settled into “Baby Boom” in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Life Shaped by Burns, the Bible, Baseball and Jack Buck — “Soul on Fire”

Posted on October 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Soul on Fire” is a touching faith-based bio-pic that pushes all the right emotional buttons. It rarely misses a beat and never misses a button. It’s about a child burned nearly to a crisp who survives through perseverance and a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Tron: Ares” — All Lit Up and No Place to Go

Posted on October 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Tron: Ares” is a shiny, shambolic bauble, a film of CGI red neon streaks that no longer obsesses about taking us inside the electronic video game metaverse, but with bringing the grim, unemotional and “programmed” ethos of the electronic ether … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Channing Tatum Charms the Socks off Kirsten Dunst, and us as “Roofman”

Posted on October 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

A dopey “on-the-spectrum” crook on the lam plot and two movie stars who know how to work a closeup headline the charms of the delightful and just dark enough “Roofman,” a caper comedy where the real caper is getting away … Continue reading →

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Oft imitated, never bettered, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Diane Keaton has died. And good heavens, how do you even BEGIN an appreciation of this Oscar winning icon’s career? She came to fame as Woody Allen’s muse, enjoyed a career that lasted three full and fulfilling acts and lived … Continue reading →

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