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Netflixable? Amy Schumer toys with being “Kinda Pregnant”

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It seem unfair that Amy Schumer‘s moment as America’s resident vulgarian and Queen of Crude has passed. We barely remember she was the Oscars hostess the night Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, that “Trainwreck” came out ten years ago and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Korean expats figure out “Bogota” is the “City of the Lost”

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Bogota: City of the Lost” is an underworld “how criminals crime” procedural with an exotic setting and fish-out-of-water characters but no pace or narrative drive worthy of its novelty. A tale that is voice-over-narrated to death by our smuggler-on-the-rise, it’s … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Disabled Child, a Mom Determined to Save Him — “Lucca’s World”

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

A guilt-ridden journalist tries everything, grasping at any “miracle treatments” straw, in an effort to save her disabled-at-birth son in “Lucca’s World,” an engrossing Around the World with Netflix weeper from Mexico. Based on the non-fiction book by Bárbara Anderson, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Jamie and Cameron skylark through “Back in Action”

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

An absurd script is navigated with brio and professionalism in the “Back in Action” comedy. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz summon up their old school cool and comical chemistry (“Annie”), Glenn Close trots out an accent and the quips and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Ex-cop Scrambles Up and Down and all around Paris “Ad Vitam”

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Latin title “Ad Vitam” doesn’t translate to “over the top,” which might be the biggest letdown in this brisk — once it gets going — French action picture. A star vehicle conceived by Gullaume Canet, (“All Time High”), a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? WWII Underground Agent “Number 24 (Nr. 24)” tells kids what’s called for when you Fight Fascism

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the smartest places Netflix has put its international production money is Scandivanian World War II films. A collection of true or “inspired by” true stories have shown us forgotten heroics, sacrifice, treachery and air raids that went wrong. … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full” becomes an Oversexed Cracker Cartoon for Netflix

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Tom Wolfe’s darkly comic 1998 novel “A Man in Full” comes to the screen, courtesy of another king of ’80s and ’90s entertainment, TV writer/producer David E. Kelley. The book, uneven but page-turning trash encompassing Wolfe’s favorite themes — class, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A cuppa “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” if you please

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well cor blimey and “butter me crumpets,” Wallace & Gromit are back. Britain’s most adorable exports since the Minis — the Cooper and the Skirt — are back for another twee stop-motion animated farce that reminds us of how much … Continue reading →

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Why Netflix is eating Amazon’s Lunch on Streaming

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix has 280 million subscribers, worldwide. People who pay for Netflix are paying for unlimited access to thousands of movies and series they watch. Amazon Prime, the online retail giant’s answer to Netflix, has 200 million “members” worldwide, but only … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Polish investigator tracks a bloody-minded killer, “Colors of Evil — Red”

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Colors of Evil: Red” is a well-acted, sinister and solidly built Polish serial killer thriller based on a novel by Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak. We follow an intrepid and “new” prosecutor/investigator (Jakub Gieszal) and the judge (Maja Ostaszewskya) whose daughter might … Continue reading →

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