Monthly Archives: September 2014

“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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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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