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Movie Review: Pierce, Helena and Gabriel ensure a Young Irish Couple Receives “Four Letters of Love”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne appear on screen together for the first time in “Four Letters of Love,” a lovely, sentimental and ever-so-Irish romance about fate, faith and the power of words to woo, especially when folded … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “When We Went MAD'” for a Humor Magazine

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

It was more obvious 40 years ago, but we in America live in a MAD culture, a land of mockery, parody and running gags aimed at the institutions, pop trends, entertainment and “Americana” that we once thought of as “sacred … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Indie Gem from Opiod Appalachia — “Hazard”

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ruined, emptied-out towns filled with rusting hulks of their mining past, long-shuttered storefronts, mobile homes twenty years past their expiration date, kudzu-overgrown Little League fields and locals who know they’re trapped even if they don’t know that ATV they just … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lonsdale hunts Fox in Zimmerman’s “The Day of the Jackal” (1973)

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pristine, sleek and stylish, “The Day of the Jackal” is a period piece that’s aged into a period piece about a period piece. Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of Frederick Forsythe’s thriller novel recreates chic early ’60s Euro-travel, wining and dining … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Her Son’s Arrest reduces her to “The Woman in the Line” at his Argentine Prison

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Due process” has been much on the minds and even in the news in North America, as ordinary citizens grapple with the shock of a rights-trampling regime killing people in boats it can’t identify much less charge with a crime … Continue reading →

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Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A “Boxcutter” Dreams of his Big Hip Hop Break…in Toronto

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

An aspiring rapper pins all his hopes on a make-or-break meeting with a famous producer at a “secret” party that everybody knows about in “Boxcutter,” an amiable street-life dramedy set on the not-so-mean streets of Toronto. It’s a tale with … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “John Candy: I Like Me”

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Friends, acquaintances and fans still get choked up when the subject of the late Canadian comic wonder John Candy comes up. I’d be talking to Richard Lewis or Ron Howard or Hanks or somebody who worked with Candy and out … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Summer of ’81, “Casey Makes a Mixtape”

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Casey Makes a Mixtape” is a wan indie coming-of-age dramedy in which nobody comes of age, nothing dramatic or comedic happens. It’s a sort of little film festival movie that couldn’t, a period piece that was never fated to pick … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Son Hunts for the WWII Pilot Father he Barely Knew beyond “The Green Box: At the Heart of War”

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

As World War II fades into history and the numbers of those who lived through it and can bear witness about it decline by the hour, the lessons of that era seem doomed to be forgotten. Generations have grown up … Continue reading →

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