Yearly Archives: 2013

Movie Review: “All is Lost” is Redford’s finest hour

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Roger Moore

“Oh Lord,” the old fisherman’s prayer goes, “Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.” Anybody who has ever sailed a boat — any boat — over the wine dark sea has that line at the ready … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “12 Years a Slave,” the best picture of the year?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Roger Moore

We expect the lashings, the leg irons, the cruelty and injustice of it all. But what Steve McQueen’s brilliant “12 Years A Slave” does for our understanding of that “peculiar” institution is the utter hopelessness of those enslaved. It lets … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Julian Assange leads the charge to turn the Internet into “The Fifth Estate”

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Roger Moore

As the world doesn’t seem to have quite made up its mind about Julian Assange, it seems fitting that the new film about him and the rise of Wikileaks has an ambivalence about it as well. “The Fifth Estate” takes … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: The French have a thing for “Capital”

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Roger Moore

Gabriel Byrne is the bank boss/heavy. Gad Elmaleh is the guy with idealism. Bit of a hard sell, in a trailer. The legend Costa-Gavras directed it. “Capital” opens Nov. 1.

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Movie Preview: “American Hustle” has the taste of serious Oscar bait

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Roger Moore

This is the international trailer for this David O. Russell period piece about corruption and the 70s. Oscar winners Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence, and Check out Jeremy Renner and Bradley Cooper’s hair. It feels period-perfect, authentic with lots of … Continue reading →

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Ejiofor and Steve McQueen make “12 Years a Slave” the anti-Django

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Roger Moore

There’s little justice in “12 Years a Slave.” And there’s not a hint of “Django Unchained” revenge in it, no scenes where a born-free New Yorker — kidnapped and enslaved — shoots, slices or strangles his tormentors. The film’s star … Continue reading →

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Next screening: Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon go working class gritty with “Sunlight Jr.”

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Roger Moore

This convenience store melodrama made it into a lot of festivals and opens the first of November. Love, jealousy, pregnancy, etc. I’d pay to watch Naomi read the phone book in a jumper with a name tag on it. Could … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: “Blue is the Warmest Color”

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Roger Moore

This erotic, NC-17 rated lesbian romantic drama was an award-winner at Cannes and has a certain awards buzz for its leads about it as it is about to open in North America.

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Weekend reviews: “Captain Phillips” lauded, “Juliet” trashed, “Machete” whacked

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Roger Moore

“Captain Phillips” has its doubters. But they are few. Great performances, a compelling and largely true story, with surprising bits of it that we haven’t heard before. The great Paul Greengrass directed, Hanks has an Oscar nomination sewed up, this … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete”

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Roger Moore

“The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete” is a rough and rough around the edges tale of children growing up on the mean streets of the wrong side of Brooklyn. It’s a coming of age story of a self-absorbed, downtrodden … Continue reading →

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