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Netflixable? Vince Vaughn invites Staten Island to eat with their “Nonnas”

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nonnas” is a heaping helping of cinematic Italian-American comfort food, a family rom-com where the romance is in the food and the comedy is in the scrappy little old ladies who prepare it. Director Stephen Chbosky (“The Perks of Being … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch cops try to free “iHostage” from an Apple Store

Posted on April 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

At some point in the police procedural “iHostage” the viewer is obliged to fight off the urge to look up the Dutch translation for “Yeah, and?” Let me save you the trouble. It’s “Ja, en?” The film is a solid, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Frozen Hot Boys” ice-sculpt their way to glory

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting. Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Fatal Finnish Funny Business comes to “Little Siberia”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A village pastor finds himself guarding a possibly valuable meteorite, fighting off those who covet it and questioning his faith and his wife — who is pregnant with a baby he’s sure isn’t his — in the dark and daft … 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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Netflixable? A Norwegian remake follows a drunken, aimless skier on “The Wrong Track”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the more disillusioning aspects of the Golden Age of Content is the way Netflix repurposes intellectual property and remakes films for different markets. Spanish films get almost pointless Mexican or Argentine remakes, and vice versa. And it all … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs. Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? French lad knows Mom is the ultimate “Honeymoon Crasher”

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Honeymoon Crasher” (“Lune de miel avec ma mère”) is a seriously sentimental, seriously tame comedy about a dull guy with risk issues and mommy issues and how he spends his honeymoon. It’s French (subtitled, or dubbed) and considering the subject, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Boy Band Pretty or “Faceless (Shoutai)” he’s too cute to be a mass murderer!

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Faceless” is “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” or just “The Fugitive” for Japan’s current “Seijin no Hi” generation. The conceit is so clever that the clock is probably already ticking on a Hollywood version of this. A … Continue reading →

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