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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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Netflixable? “Girl Haunts Boy,” a teen romance for tweens

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Roger Moore

Here’s an exceptionally mild-mannered Netflix teen romance built around a couple of cute young leads made “stars” by earlier Netflix outings. Peyton List (“Kobra Kai”) plays a flapper teen who swipes a magic ring and dies in 1928, only to … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch underworld’s less of a treat in “Ferry 2”

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

The Dutch underworld saga of “Ferry” Bouman finishes with something like a flourish in “Ferry 2,” the sequel to a gritty rise-of-a-“Pill King” in the Amsterdam underworld tale. But a lot of what precedes that flash finale is pretty frustrating, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Black Women serve in WWII — “The Six Triple Eight”

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

The only all-Black Women’s Army Corps united to serve in World War II n Europe is fondly remembered in Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight,” a polished, sentimental and old fashioned picture that points out to the culture at large … Continue reading →

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