Monthly Archives: September 2014

Box Office: “Guardians” closes in on $300 million as the summer bottoms out

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Roger Moore

It’s the dead of winter, box office wise, that gloomy stretch when there’s no sign of life, no notion of when things will turn springlike and pop back to life. So “Guardians of the Galaxy” will manage another $10 million … 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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Movie Review: “The Identical”

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

A musical mashup of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis biography and myth, “The Identical” plays like a failed faith-based “Inside Llewyn Davis.” And that’s the closest thing to a compliment it will get. Built around a too-tall Elvis impersonator, Blake … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Thunder and the House of Magic”

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Roger Moore

< “Thunder and the House of Magic” is a beautifully animated cartoon from Belgium, a kids’ comedy with barely a laugh in it. Blame it on translation — it has been released in a number of countries, perhaps it was … Continue reading →

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Next Screening: “Innocence”

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Roger Moore

A possible franchise, or a horror film dumped onto the first weekend after Labor Day? It’s based on a Jane Mendelsohn novel, part of a series, I think. “Innocence” stars Sophie Curtis, a prep school girl who has lost her … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Longest Week”

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Roger Moore

The considerable charms of Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde get a considered workout in the lightly charming New York romance “The Longest Week.” It’s a droll comedy, with a droll narration (by Larry Pine), set among the idle affluent of … Continue reading →

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