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Movie Review: Stormare wants Kinnear to find Duhamel, who’s gone “Off the Grid”

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Career bit player Ricky Russert, who was in “I, Tonya” and TV’s “Outer Banks” and even the recent “MacGuyer” reboot , gets a featured role as a villain in “Off the Grid,” a Josh Duhamel star-vehicle about a scientist who … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s a little known truth of indie film sets that the “indier” the film, the less likely you’ll be able to tell the cast from the crew when visiting the shoot. I came to this conclusion covering such low budget, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Pinter, Losey and Bogarde wind up the Clockwork Creepiness of “The Servant”(1963)

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s been so long since I reviewed anything scripted by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter that I had to refresh my memory about the traits associated with the phrase “Pinteresque.” Let’s see, an “atmosphere of menace,” suspense and tension heightened by … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Brazilian pop-star biopic — “Latin Blood: The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso”

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

From the moment little Ney de Souza Pereira spied cabaret and carnival icon Elvira Pagã on the stage, the die was cast and his young life had purpose. All those beatings he stubbornly endured from his military officer dad because … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Life of Chuck” Dances for the Reason to Live at the End of the World

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Speaking as a critic who’s been “blurbed” a few times over the decades, you’ve got to recognize the double-edged sword such “recognition” in the advertising on a poster for a movie is. That’s you, out there, effusive in your praise, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Indian Woman stands up to a “Pinch,” and Faces the Consequences

Posted on June 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Uttera Singh’s “Pinch” is a picture that runs on outrage. It shows us a sex crime and demonstrates how hard it is to get anyone — including women, her own mother and even herself — to take it seriously in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: To be Pretty, Young and Italian, Figuring It Out at “Diciannove”

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

Giovanni Tortorici’s “Diciannove” is a dreamy, drifting odyssey into a time in youth when one discovers the meaning of “the world’s your oyster.” It’s about a young Italian with choices at an age when you know it all and you … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Guitars, Reverb and a History of “Sound of the Surf”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a fun-fun-fun little documentary about the history of surf music, a movie that remembers the surfing “fad” and enduring appeal of surf culture and the “dripping damp sound” of Fender (usually) guitars pumped through amps that had to grow … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Twee Parable for the Age of the Oligarch — “The Phoenician Scheme”

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

When he’s “on,” Wes Anderson’s films are giddy, deadpan delights, sparkling with wit and touching in the vulnerable and comically absurd human foibles they celebrate. But when he’s “off,” brace yourself for 100 minutes of production-designed preciousness, airless laughs that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Bring Her Back” — Horror One Suffers Through rather than Relishes

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not a blanket condemnation to say I could not wait for “Bring Her Back,” the excruciating new film from the co-directors of “Talk to Me,” to come to an end. One can recognize its unflinching, grisly details and unsparing … Continue reading →

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