Monthly Archives: June 2015

Movie Review: “Jurassic World”

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Godzilla” dumb and “Terminator” violent, “Jurassic World” is still a perfectly serviceable summer popcorn picture. Who cares if the story is a cut and paste clone of the original film? The dinosaurs are more tactile, the violence much more in-your-face … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Set Fire to the Stars”

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“All poets are mad,” the 16th century scholar observed. And so they have been, at least in the movies — mad and mercurial and of course, entertaining drunks. Dylan Thomas is the patron saint of this stereotype, and it’s his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

  Touching and wise, cute and occasionally cloying, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is a dramedy that taps into both real teen angst and behavior, and our fantasies of what we hope teens are thinking and feeling and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Madame Bovary”

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Roger Moore

Handsomely mounted, period perfect and starring the empathetic Mia Wasikowska in the title role, the new “Madame Bovary” narrows the scope and finds a different focus within Gustave Flaubert’s novel. But stripping away complexity doesn’t just undo decades of politically … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Wolfpack”

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Roger Moore

The Learning Channel must be kicking itself over not discovering “The Wolfpack” before filmmaker Crystal Moselle did. The dysfunctional Duggars of Arkansas have nothing on the Angulos of New York’s lower East Side. Big, eccentric family raised in a cultish … Continue reading →

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Olivia Cooke proves she’s more than “just a horror girl” with “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Roger Moore

You can’t make a movie out of the tragicomic novel “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” without the perfect, terminally ill final third character in that title. The film’s director, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon cast about and found someone in a … Continue reading →

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Box Office: “Spy” close to $32 million, “Insidious 3” $22 — “San Andreas” may reach $100

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Roger Moore

It’s “Aloha” for “Aloha,” which opened feeble and is fading out of the top ten. But it didn’t fade enough for “Love & Mercy” to crack the top ten on its opening weekend. On under 500 theaters, the Brian Wilson … Continue reading →

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Weekend movies — “Spy” overpraised, “Love & Mercy” much loved, “Insidious” passable — “Entourage” nuked

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

So here’s how director and his muse guarantee uniform good notices for their latest comic teaming. Get collectively bent out of shape when critics abuse you for your over-reliance on “fat jokes.” Make people feel sorry for Melissa McCarthy, when … Continue reading →

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Movie Review–“Insidious: Chapter 3”

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Roger Moore

It starts with a simple request. OK, it’s a horror movie. So maybe not so simple. “I want to talk to somebody who’s not around any more.” Of course, warning young Quinn (Stefanie Scott) that trying to talk with her … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “How to Save Us”

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Roger Moore

Writer-director-actor Jason Trost’s “How to Save Us” is a clever mash-up of the zombie apocalypse thriller and ghost story genres. But this lean indie picture runs out of surprises early and never overcomes flat, uninvolving acting, primarily by the eyepatch-wearing … Continue reading →

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