Daily Archives: March 10, 2015

Movie Review: “Run All Night”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Run All Night” is a first-person shooter thriller for the Just for  Men/Grecian Formula generation. Old men — cops and mobsters — sit in bars, drink their Scotch on the rocks and talk about the “old neighborhood,” their long history … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: “Run All Night”

“Zoolander 2?” It’s happening

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

Here’s how Derek and Hansel announced it. By walking the catwalk at Fashion Week in Paris, for Valentino. Well-played. Sure, it’s probably too late for them to return to these guys. This sort of comedy is passe in “The Hangover” … Continue reading →

Posted in previews, profiles and movie news, Reviews | Comments Off on “Zoolander 2?” It’s happening

Movie Review: “Mr. Kaplan”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Mr. Kaplan”, Uruguay’s contender for the best foreign language film Oscar, is about an elderly Jew who ponders whether he “inspired” anyone, if he’s “accomplished anything memorable.” Jacob Kaplan (Héctor Noguera) decides the answer is “no,” and results to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: “Mr. Kaplan”

Movie Review: Disney delivers a lovely, dull “Cinderella”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

Of all the Cinderellas that Disney could have updated, how on Earth did they settle on this one? This Kenneth Branagh version, scripted by Chris “About a Boy” Weitz, is stately and sumptuous, but dull and never ever delightful. The … Continue reading →

Posted in previews, profiles and movie news, Reviews | 6 Comments

Movie Review: “Ghoul”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

A film crew hoping to shoot a killer pilot for a TV series on “Cannibals of the 20th Century” — no doubt Discovery is interested — heads into rural Ukraine to document a mass murderer and cannibal who survived Stalin’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: “Ghoul”

Movie Review: “It Follows”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

It’s nearly impossible, in our horror-glutted culture, to find a novel spin to the classic tropes of scary movies. But David Robert Mitchell does just that with “It Follows.” It’s a chased-by-zombie-walking-demons thriller in which the victims have to have … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Comments Off on Movie Review: “It Follows”

Movie Review: At long last, “The Wrecking Crew” gets its due

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

A decade in the making, “The Wrecking Crew” took almost as long to make it to theaters. But Danny Tedesco’s “unknown musicians who cranked out the hits” doc, which predated and inspired the Oscar winning “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: At long last, “The Wrecking Crew” gets its due

Movie Review: Heigl hits close to home with “Home Sweet Hell.”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

It says volumes about the state of Katherine Heigl’s on-and-off screen persona that casting her as a shrieking, shrewish control freak with murderous tendencies seems a bit on-the-nose. The dark comedy “Home Sweet Hell” is about the marriage from Hell … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: Heigl hits close to home with “Home Sweet Hell.”

Movie Review: Sandler can’t escape his bad-movie streak with “The Cobbler”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

Tom McCarthy transformed himself from an actor into an indie writer-director, and became a critics’ darling. Who knew what he REALLY wanted was to make Adam Sandler comedies? Call it hubris, the belief that he could alter an actor’s career … Continue reading →

Posted in previews, profiles and movie news, Reviews | Comments Off on Movie Review: Sandler can’t escape his bad-movie streak with “The Cobbler”

Movie Review: “Champs” is a winner, but not by knockout

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Champs” is a quotably slick documentary about the social, psychological and economic underpinnings of boxing, a clear-eyed look at the deadly and dirty sport often rhapsodized as “The Sweet Science.” There’s nobility in the boxers this is built around — … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: “Champs” is a winner, but not by knockout