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Movie Review: “Groundhog Day” goes Gallic, “Palm Springs” swings Moroccan — “An Endless Wedding”

Posted on August 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

The French take on “Palm Springs” is something of a departure from the Hulu original film starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Miliotti and J.K. Simmons. Director and co-writer Patrick Cassir’s “An Endless Marriage” is just as funny, but more brisk and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Baby Assassins 3,” “Nice Days” for killing?

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

Truth be told, the world didn’t need a third “Baby Assassins” movie. All writer-director Yuko Sakamoto did was make a longer, more bloated, more character-cluttered version of the first two films. And five years have passed. Our Japanese kewpie doll … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Just Beyond Paris, the “Suspended Time” of Covid is meant for Chat, Cooking and Reminiscing

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

At this late date, it’s difficult to find something new or fresh to say about “What we did during Covid lockdown,” as so many other filmmakers chose to use that time planning and even filming such stories. But the French … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Godard, Bardot, Palance and “The Odyssey” — “Contempt” (1963)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jean-Luc Godard, the most-analyzed, dissected and critiqued auteur of his generation makes his grand statement on the compromises and sell-outs required by salope déesse cinema with “Contempt,” his biggest-ever hit, a movie about making movies. The critic turned cinematic revolutionary … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Lost in Dementia and Memory Care, seeking that “Familiar Touch”

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Familiar Touch” is a simple, documdrama-real film of frank honesty and sensitivity about dementia and adjusting to life in Memory Care. If you’re fortunate enough to not know that label, describing the wing or floor of any nursing home or … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Father seeks Justice and Answers about his Murdered Child — “Barron’s Cove”

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Screenwriter Evan Ari Kelman wrote a script — “Barron’s Cove” — that made “The Black List,” a survey of studio folks who vote on the “most liked” unproduced scripts they’ve read in a given year. In eventually making the sale … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” and how a TV host Changed America

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

He wasn’t a natural “performer.” Ed Sullivan had a face made for radio and voice best appreciated in print, where he’d gained fame as a Broadway columnist and sportswriter. Stiff, later somewhat stooped, with odd vocal cadences and a fear … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Burt, Booty, Brigands and Brigantines — “The Crimson Pirate” (1952)

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Crimson Pirate?” Yarrrrr, there’s a pirate picture with teeth! Gore Verbinski borrowed from a parade of pirate movies when he concocted Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” franhcise, none more than this jaunty romp from 1952. Warner Bros. gave star … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Sandler’s back in the Sandtrap — “Happy Gilmore 2”

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Any hopes that Adam Sandler would use his Netflix contract to remake himself in movies like “Hustle” or “The Meyerowitz Stories”were dashed a couple of “Murder Mysteries” ago. But he’s still doing numbers for the streamer, as his audience aged … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Filmed appreciations of potentially great artists who “die young and leave a beautiful corpse” are many. If these post mortems have a common thread, it’s the difficulty in separating the myth from the musician, painter, actor or writer. And the … Continue reading →

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