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Movie Review: This “Tuner” has an Ear for Safecracking

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

It’s built around a methodical, arcane and dying artistic profession set in a digitized, short-attention span world. There’s a love story whose backdrop is the classical music where virtuosos practice their art, and piano tuners practice theirs. And a heist … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: It’s “Disclosure Day” weekend, but “Obsession” and “Backroom” are Still Making Bank

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

Steven Spielberg’s third shot at “The aliens have made contact” is overperforming the low expectations that Universal had put out — $35 million, they said. For a Spielberg movie. With aliens. And Emily “A Quiet Place” Blunt. Not a world … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Ladies First” remakes “I’m Not an Easy Man” in Sexist Shades of British

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

One of the most popular Netflix films from France, “I’m Not an Easy Man” earns a British-accented remake with “Ladies First,” a gender-reversing Sacha Baron Cohen/Rosamund Pike rom-com. Seems to me I traded cars on the review traffic from the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Carolina Caroline” and Her Man Oliver Rob their Way through the 1990s South

Posted on June 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Carolina Caroline” is a rigidly formulaic romantic thriller about a couple who meet as grifter-and-trainee and abruptly graduate from picking pockets and quick change scams to bank robberies. It’s dogmatic to the point where any potential surprise is smothered out … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Sheep Detectives” hunt for Suspects when their Shepherd is Offed

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

I can’t say much for the plot of “The Sheep Detecives,” a children’s murder mystery about talking, crime-solving sheep from those sheep-and-murder mad Brits. The “murder mystery” isn’t particularly mysterious and its solution leaves a lot to be desired. And … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make “Animal Farm” Great Again?

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Roger Moore

George Orwell’s parable of totalitarianism earns a Trump era updating in a new animated “Animal Farm,” this one backed by Angel Studios and not the CIA. Actor turned “Venom” sequel director and the one-and-only “Gollum” in J.R.R. Tolkienland Andy Serkis … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Coogan and Bird Charm their Way through a Class on Fascism — “The Penguin Lessons”

Posted on April 20, 2026 by Roger Moore

No English speaking actor in film is better at making caddish and insufferably self-absorbed charming than Steve Coogan. That proves to be a saving grace of “The Penguin Lessons,” a sweet saunter through a true story of a rescued bird … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “I Was a Stranger” and You Welcomed Me

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

Just when you think that you’ve seen and heard all sides of the human migration debate, and long after you fear that the cruel, the ignorant and the scapegoaters have won that shouting match, a film comes along and defies … Continue reading →

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