Monthly Archives: September 2014

Movie Review: “I Am Eleven” goes where better, more focused films have gone before

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

It took Australian journalist/filmmaker Genevieve Bailey six years of travel to 15 different countries, from Thailand to the U.S., Sweden to Morocco, to film “I Am Eleven,” her documentary about the state of eleven-year-olds the world over. She wasn’t wasting … Continue reading →

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Catching up with Cozi and Nathan, Winter’s Pals, for “Dolphin Tale 2”

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

It had been three long years since Nathan Gamble and Cozi Duehlsdorff, the two kids who befriended Winter the injured dolphin, made “Dolphin Tale” with the world’s first dolphin with a prosthetic tail. Would Winter remember them for the sequel? … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Maggie Smith shines with Kline as “My Old Lady”

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Roger Moore

Kevin Kline is a failed American writer, broke and in Paris to collect his inheritance — an ancient two-story apartment with an accompanying garden in the center city Marais district.Maggie Smith is the 90something little old Englishwoman living in it.And … Continue reading →

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A gem just off I-95; Smithfield N.C.’s Ava Gardner Museum

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Roger Moore

It has always been just a bit out of the way on my every trek between Fla. and Va., where my family lives. And I always seemed to have people in the car who had no interest in Ava Gardner. … Continue reading →

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Questions for Jane Fonda?

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Roger Moore

Oscar winner, daughter of an Oscar winner, brother to Peter, still controversial to some decades after her activism, Jane Fonda has her best comic role since, oh, “Electric Horseman,” with “This is Where I Leave You.” It’s a dysfunctional family … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: Fey and Bateman, Dax and Rose and above all, Jane Fonda — “This is Where I Leave You”

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Roger Moore

This looks very funny, everybody playing in their comical comfort zones. It opens in a few weeks, I have to see it early because of an interview with Ms. Fonda, the matriarch of this troubled, stumbling clan.

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Next Interview: Questions for Noomi Rapace?

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Roger Moore

She was the original “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the reason the Swedish films became a worldwide phenomenon. Hollywood came calling, with decidedly mixed results. A “Sherlock Holmes” sequel, an “Alien” prequel. English? Not her first language. Plainly. But with … Continue reading →

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Joan Rivers: 1933-2014

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Roger Moore

A real “Piece of Work,” she was. Funny to the very end, biting, unblinking and boundaries-pushing mean.  

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Movie Review: Lethargic but pretty “Innocence” will scare no one

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

You’re seeing visions of ghosts. You’re hearing voices chanting in Latin. You’ve lost your mother and dad’s promptly taken up with the school nurse. And you suspect someone or something is killing students at this exclusive private girls’ school you’ve … Continue reading →

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Next Interview: Questions for Bill Hader?

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

  “The Skeleton Twins” shows us an entirely new Bill Hader. Well, he’s played opposite Kristin Wiig before, on years of “Saturday Night Live.” And he’s played “gay” before — effeminate voice, mannerisms, etc. But “Twins” is a dramedy, which … Continue reading →

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