Monthly Archives: May 2015

Movie Review: “Hunting Elephants”

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Roger Moore

Patrick Stewart preens, poses and gives us a little song and dance in “Hunting Elephants,” livening up a fairly dark and somewhat predictable Israeli caper comedy. He plays Lord Michael Simpson, a not-quite-starving actor, a highly born ponce whose stage … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Seven Five”

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Roger Moore

In a time of intense new scrutiny of police practices and tactics around the country, the documentary “The Seven Five” shows just how wrong these public servants in blue can go when the circumstances are right. A new film about … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The D-Train” takes you straight to high school reunion hell

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

In “The D Train,” Jack Black plays a guy who never forgot his first high school “man crush.” Dan Landsman was the awkward lump nobody remembers. And the object of his crush? The swaggering jock, the popular and talented hunk, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “5 Flights Up”

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

The considerable cinematic charms of Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman are no match for the hell that is the New York real estate market in “5 Flights Up,” a middling comedy about getting old, trying to downsize and running up … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Maggie” has a mournful tone and the most sympathetic Schwarzenegger performance in years

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

By this point in the virus’s decades-long mutation, we’ve seen pretty much everything zombies have to throw at us. They won’t die, even as their corpses rot and turn green, and they’re always on the (usually slow) hunt for brains … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Forbidden love” has a Hasidic touch in “Felix and Meira”

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

The problem with any screen romance between someone from the Hassidic community and an outsider is the limited range of outcomes. Either the Hassidic character, say she’s a woman as in John Turturro’s comedy Fading Gigolo,” turns her back on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dolph meets Tony Jaa fighting the “Skin Trade”

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

Reputation suggests you could conjure a half-decent B-movie out of Dolph Lundgren and martial arts dynamo Tony “Ong Bak” Jaa. Especially if their supporting cast includes Ron Perlman as a Slavic mobster, Peter Weller as a Jersey-accented cop, Michael Jai … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: At long last, a faith-based drama with “Noble” results

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

She flips off the nuns who took her in and educated her, is fond of profanity and wasn’t above a little premarital sex. It was the “Swinging Sixties,” after all. By any measure, Christina Noble was not your average heroine … Continue reading →

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Arnold tries scaling back his quote and his acting for indie film with “Maggie”

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

The world long ago figured out who this Arnold Schwarzenegger fellow is supposed to be on the big screen. And the actor has always been comfortable with this image. “The most heroic guy in the biggest action movie of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Slow West” is a convincingly offbeat genre Western shot in New Zealand

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Roger Moore

There’s an alien feel to “Slow West,” an unconventionally convention Western about a romantic tenderfoot provided safe passage to the frontier by a grizzled, unsentimental gunman. Credit the New Zealand locations — fresh and convincingly Western with nary a hobbit … Continue reading →

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