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“Resurrection Road” is a mediocre Civil War B-movie that lapses into a seriously bad supernatural C-picture for the third act. That’s also when Michael Madsen, King of the C-movies, makes his mark. There’s a little promise in the premise — Black Union soldiers sent to disarm a Confederate fort in Arkansas, led by an escaped slave/soldier promised “40 acres” if he takes on this suicide mission, and a hangman’s rope if he doesn’t.

5 days ago | rogersmovienation.com | Roger Moore

“Raise Your Hand” is an earnest, well-acted indie drama seriously undercut by coarseness, cliches and stereotypes. Writer-director Jessica Rae’s debut feature is about coming of age and finding your voice. The stakes are pretty high for a high school story — escaping the trap of poverty, poor decisions made without smart adult advice and supervision and the role art and artistic expression can play in breaking a cycle that sees single moms raising single moms.

5 days ago | rogersmovienation.com | 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.

5 days ago | rogersmovienation.com | Roger Moore

“Cringe Comedy” is taken to the next level, and then some, in the intimately uncomfortable “Friendship,” a story of the broken state of bro bonding and on-the-spectrum oddness. Writer-director Andrew DeYoung taps into a generation’s male isolation with a dark comedy that will make you squirm every time you laugh, especially if you see it with an audience. It is an open wound of insecurities hidden in a dark and darkly funny examination of “fitting in” and failing.

5 days ago | rogersmovienation.com | Roger Moore

Movie Preview: Guillermo del Toro and Netflix make Oscar Isaac the Doctor Who Played God — “Frankenstein” The Oscar winning del Toro gets a Netflix black check to write and direct his take on the monster and the man who made him. Isaac, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Jacob Elordi and Charles Dance also star.