Monthly Archives: September 2014

Terry Gilliam conjures more magic on a budget with “Zero Theorem”

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Roger Moore

Terry Gilliam’s track record as a director is very much a mixed bag, in terms of box office or critical success. But the director of “Brazil” and 12 Monkeys” and “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is often compared to the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: There’s no right time for “No Good Deed”

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

Screen Gems celebrates Violence Against Women Awareness Week with “No Good Deed,” a brutal thriller about, you guessed it, a “malignant narcissist” committing all sorts of violence against women. The team behind “Obsessed” serves up Idris Elba as an escaped … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Take Me to the River” revisits Memphis soul

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Roger Moore

There have been earlier and better movies about “The Memphis Sound,” with the documentary “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story” being among the best. And there have been recent and better music documentaries built around the idea of giving music … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Dolphin Tale 2”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Moore

You might have thought “Dolphin Tale,” the sleeper hit kids’ film of a few falls back, was a complete, compact and uplifting story that didn’t really need a second act. And if so, you were on the money. A fictionalized … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Depression is comically skin deep in “The Skeleton Twins”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Moore

It’s the phone call no one wants to answer. A relative has been hospitalized. He tried to kill himself.Most inconveniently, when Maggie answers the phone she has to discard the fatal fistful of pills she was about to pop. She … Continue reading →

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“No Good Deed” — how BAD is it?

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Moore

Screen Gems, which tends to cower rather than preview most of its releases, is being unusually Screen Gems-ish about “No Good Deed,” a thriller with Idris Elba as the possible home invader and Taraji P. Henson as a woman he … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Drop”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Moore

They also serve who pour and observe.That’s Bob Saganowski’s modus operandi. He’s bartender-for-life at Cousin Marv’s on the cruel side of Brooklyn, a 30something loner living in the house his late parents bought and, from the looks of it, furnished … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Roger Moore

Serenely melancholy but unfailingly melodramatic, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” is a tone poem to love and loss that goes on too long and is more intent on creating a sad mood than with breaking your heart or bringing you … Continue reading →

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Bill Hader talks about being a “Skeleton Twin.”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Roger Moore

   Regarding his new film, “The Skeleton Twins,” Bill Hader is the first to admit “I don’t get offered guys this serious or complex.”    The 36 year-old Tulsa native has been known for comedy — pretty much exclusively — thanks … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Roger Moore

The US version of this romance is one film, not two, a love story told from two different points of view. But in festivals, in Europe, they got “Her” and “Him” versions of the tale. Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy … Continue reading →

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