Monthly Archives: April 2014

Movie Review: “Under the Skin”

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

Quiet, cryptic and never less than creepy, “Under the Skin” is sci-fi that doesn’t do the work for you. There are no explanations. No character rattles off a paragraph or three of exposition and back story. There are no names. … Continue reading →

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Comic Book movies and the death of the great film score

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

A lot goes into making a popcorn movie what Roger Ebert called “an out of body experience.” The blockbusters may be bigger than ever, these days. Each new “Star Trek” or Marvel or DC Comics adaptation sets new standards for … Continue reading →

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Mickey Rooney: 1920-2014

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Roger Moore

Mickey Rooney had so many careers that it’s easy to lose track. He broke out in MGM’s Andy Hardy movies in the ’30s and 40s, teaming with the likes of Judy Garland. He became a character actor and made a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Depardieu is more cunning than daft in “A Farewell to Fools”

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Roger Moore

　”A Farewell to Fools” is a thin — very thin — Romanian fable dressed up by an international cast, a Romanian countryside that could pass for Provence or Tuscany and a World War II setting.Ipu, played by Gerard Depardieu, took … Continue reading →

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Cage channels his personal demons into “Joe”, his best role in a decade

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Roger Moore

A decade and a half removed from his Oscar winning turn in “Leaving Las Vegas,” Nicolas Cage was an actor on a treadmill of ever decreasing returns. Years and years of cut-rate sci-fi (“Knowing”), bargain basement action (“Bangkok Dangerous”, “Stolen”) … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mistaken for Strangers” sees The National through a jealous, whiny brother’s eyes

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

Decades after Ross McElwee invented the navel-gazing school of documentary filmmaking with “Sherman’s March,” Tom Berninger adds a new wrinkle to the genre with “Mistaken for Strangers.” Berninger is hero and villain of this comic essay in ineptitude masquerading as … Continue reading →

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Next Interview: Questions for Nick Frost?

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

He’s half of Britain’s funniest comic duo since “The Two Ronnies.” Nick Frost and Simon Pegg clicked in “Spaced” and “Shawn of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” and “Paul” and last summer’s “The World’s End.” And the portly Frost has … Continue reading →

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Scarlett Johansson shows us what Luc Besson had in mind for her in “Lucy”

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

The French action auteur — producer, cop and immigrant bashing Luc Besson — has his new muse. And her name is Scarlett J. This has Besson-style action beats, a ruthless heroine whose accidental ingesting of a drug turn her “Limitless.” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Goodbye World”

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

The end — when it comes — arrives by cell phone, a text message virus that crashes servers and tips our wired-in/dialed-up civilization into collapse. Anarchy begins, bikers and gun nuts and rogue National Guardsman run the show.But if we’re … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cheap thrills pay off in “Alien Abduction”

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

Truth in advertising? “Alien Abduction” is about just that.And it’s as simple in concept as it is in title — a hand-held camera/found footage bogeyman thriller in the “Blair Witch” mold.A family of five heads to the mountain of North … Continue reading →

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