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Netflixable? “Being Eddie” is how Murphy wants you to See Him

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eddie Murphy has a lot to be satisfied with. A gifted mimic turned overnight stand-up star, famous since his teen years on “Saturday Night Live,” a ground-breaking African American superstar of the screen, for decades one of the biggest box … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dolph and Michael Jai White roll their eyes at the Dork who says he’s “the best” — “Exit Protocol”

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’d think these sorts of things would be figured out at a table read, if not in the audition. Give your leading man his pages, make him read some of the fifth rate Raymond Chandler “tough guy” voice-over narration you … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Why pull the trigger when “The Old Woman with the Knife” is available?

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Old Woman with the Knife” is a Korean variation on the World of Assassins tale, where killing for hire is a business with professionals assigned out of offices and following “rules.” It’s another story of an aged killer competing … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Every Heist needs “The Mastermind” to Plan It

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

Grey skies, a “cool jazz” score and sketchy characters are selling points of “The Mastermind,” a ’70s period piece infused with the “grit” aficionados associate with the films of that benighted decade. It looks the way fall thrillers, even dryly … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Louis Mandylor commits another War (Movie) Atrocity — “Prisoner of War”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Quintessential Keaton, Parenting with a Feminist Message — “Baby Boom” (1987)

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

The death of Diane Keaton over the weekend had a lot of us poking around streaming services, hunting for something to remind us of what made the Oscar winner an icon of her era. We settled into “Baby Boom” in … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE:  Taylor Swift” goes “Showgirl,” scores a $30 million+ weekend — The Rock’s “Smashing Machine” Smashes his Oscar Hopes

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

A documentary about the making of her album “The Life of a Showgirl” makes Taylor Swift the queen of the box office on the first weekend of October, celebrating the record’s blockbuster release with a box office smash as a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: An Ealing Comedy of Capital and Labor and “The Man in the White Suit” (1951)

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the years after “The War,” Britons got back to indulging the quirkier aspects of a national character that “Keep Calm and Carry On” had superceded, at least as far as “Fritz” and his “Bloodthirsty Guttersnipe” gang were concerned. The … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Widower Timothy Spall crosses Britain on “The Last Bus”

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

The first impression Timothy Spall made on film fans was when he played a plump, delusional, somewhat daft chef in Mike Leigh’s quirky slice-of-working-class dream, “Life is Sweet.” Restaurateur Aubrey thought putting boiled bacon consumme, prune quiche and pork cyst … Continue reading →

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