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Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bill Skarsgård gets “Locked” in that one car he should never have tried to steal

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’ve seen guys like this in many a city throughout the world. They stroll down a less busy street, eyes darting back and forth under their hoodies, tried to look casual as they take hold of every car door handle … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Noisy Zombies spoil the Peace and Quiet of “Silent Zone”

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

There was a time when zombies were slow and the movies about them were quick. The walking dead would lurch into sight and characters would have to go out of their way to trip or somehow be trapped by the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dito Montiel rounds up Murray, Coolidge, Davidson, Union and Ed Harris as “Riff Raff”

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

The trailers hint that there might be laughs, that the tone of “Riff Raff” — a dark and bloody comedy about hit men, family, and how those two only exist together in the movies — could very well come off. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: DIY Cinema at its Indian Best — “Superboys of Malegaon”

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

A plucky crew of India’s working poor, tired of being busted for pirating movies, set out to make their own in the amusing and engaging true-story dramedy “Superboys of Malegaon.” They’re do-it-yourselfers of the most adorable variety, turning a bicycle … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Oscar-nominated animated “Incredible Journey” from Latvia — “Flow”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Flow” is a futuristic Franco-Latvian fantasy, an animated sci-fi version of Disney’s classic animal odyssey, “The Incredible Journey.” Gints Zilbalodis’ film, an Oscar nominee as Best Animated Feature and as Best International Feature, is a dialogue-free travelogue that follows a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Hell hath no fury like the heroine of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths”

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pansy is a 50something Londoner in a roomy new flat that she keeps immaculate, married and wholly supported by her plumber husband of many years, Curtley. And all Pansy does, from morning til night, is “rage, rage against the dying … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues”

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

The bluesman James Cotton was the son of a sharecropping Mississippi Baptist preacher and a mother who played the harmonica. And when they died when he was quite young, he picked up his mother’s harmonica and used it to play … Continue reading →

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