Monthly Archives: April 2013

Movie Review: The Zombies seem unqualified to be “The Lords of Salem”

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Roger Moore

Let’s give Rob and Sheri Moon Zombie, the Sonny and Cher of sadomasochistic horror, the benefit of the doubt and assume they set out to make “The Lords of Salem” some sort of instant bad cult film about witches. That … Continue reading →

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Next Interview: Questions for Colin Firth?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Roger Moore

He’s got “Arthur Newman” opening next week in some cities. There’s the Coen Brothers’ “Gambit” caper picture remake. And “Bridget Jones’s Baby.” And he’s playing the writer Erskine Caldwell in a period piece romance. Of course, Oscar winner Colin Firth … Continue reading →

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Today’s first screening: “At Any Price”

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Roger Moore

Dennis Quaid’s the farmer struggling to hang on to his land, Zac Efron’s the son who wants to race with NASCAR. This one looks to take in the war on family farms by Big Ag, dreams of fathers and sons, … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: “The Iceman”

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Roger Moore

It’s no great stretch to think of Michael Shannon as a hitman. Or Ray Liotta as a hitman’s boss. But “The Iceman,” based on a true story, has a hitman’shome life (Winona Ryder plays the wife), Josh Lucas as an … Continue reading →

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Supporting cast fills up for the Dwayne Johnson-Brett Ratner “Hercules”

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Roger Moore

Lots of supporting players have signed on the dotted line for the big screen version of “Hercules” that Dwayne “The Once and Future Rock” Johnson is set to star in. There’s Ian McShane and John Hurt, Rufus Sewell and Joseph … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Oblivion,” an April sci-fi film

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Roger Moore

Science fiction is one film genre that seems to wear its ancestors, the films that inspired it or, less charitably, that it “borrowed” from, with pride. Thus, “Oblivion” has “Scavengers” who dress like Sand People from “Star Wars,” round, red-eyed … Continue reading →

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Today’s screenings: “Oblivion” and “Arthur Newman”

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Roger Moore

One’s a sci-fi picture in which Tom Cruise finds out if Joseph “Tron” Kosinski has a little blockbuster magic left him in his tank — a ruined planet, a conspiracy to keep news of who might still be “down there” … Continue reading →

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Jamie Foxx as Electro in the next “Spider-Man” movie

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Roger Moore

He doesn’t look like the images of the character from comic books. He has a blueish glow for the next “Amazing Spider-Man” movie, due out in 2014. But it’s an arresting look, and the hoodie lends him a certain currency … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Home Run” is, at best, a ground rule double

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Roger Moore

The first rule of any baseball movie is that the guys cast to star in it have to look like they can play. And in “Home Run,” Scott Elrod had the build, the swagger and the sweet swing of a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Paris-Manhattan” finds fresh laughs in the wit and wisdom of Woody

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Roger Moore

Paris-Manhattan” is an amusing little nothing of a movie built around the wit and wisdom of Woody Allen. First-time writer-director Sophie Lellouche has taken bon mots from Allen’s movies and used them to create nothing less than a philosophy of life for her heroine, … Continue reading →

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