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Movie Review: A Maine Lobsterman can’t escape “The Ghost Trap” of his life

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A script that leans into melodrama and wildly uneven performances are the undoing of “The Ghost Trap,” an immersive peek into Maine lobstering life and the people who live it. Zak Steiner and others in the cast doing the baiting, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Swiss Mom Takes Lovers to Fool Her son about his father — “Let Me Go”

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Let Me Go” is an intimate, brittle and somewhat chilly Swiss romance about a 40something single mom who stumbles into her feelings, despite a lifetime of avoiding that trap. Jeanne Balibar stars as a small town seamstress who takes regular … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Brit Baby Boomer lost in His Own World — “Billy Liar” (1963)

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Falling into “Billy Liar” is no easy feat, even for a film buff, over sixty years after it was released. It’s been included in more than one list of “the 100 Best British Films Ever Made,” albeit in the bottom … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Ewan and Charley are Back in the (Motorcycle) Saddle for the “Long Way Home”

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the distinct pleasures of the streaming TV era is renewed every time old friends Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman mount up for another epic motorcycling trek in their “Long Way” series. The latest, “Long Way Home,” plays up … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Frozen Hot Boys” ice-sculpt their way to glory

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting. Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A writer, her mentor and “The Friend” Great Dane who takes over her life

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

You might have to be a dog lover to truly engage and “get” “The Friend,” a melancholy meditation on suicide, loss, character and our obligations to someone who has killed himself. And if you’re unsure about the depth of your … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Liev Schreiber broods beautifully in Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees”

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Across the River and Into the Trees” presents Liev Schreiber as the latest Ernest Hemingway literary alter ego to make it to the screen, and perhaps the best ever at capturing the world weariness of the late life, post-World War … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Restored” for re-release, “Breakfast of Champions” (1999) is still malnourished

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

A lot of myth and movie lore are attached to the cinema’s epic flops. The long-gestating, all-star-cast 1999 film of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Breakfast of Champions” carries its share of such baggage. No, it didn’t end adapting screenwriter and director … Continue reading →

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