Monthly Archives: November 2015

Box Office: “Spectre” opens 17% lower than “Skyfall, “Peanuts” not quite a blockbuster

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Roger Moore

It was obvious from the product tie-ins, the clumsy way the studio promoted it and the early reviews that “Spectre” represented a pretty serious fall-off in the again-burgeoning James Bond franchise. Not fatal, just serious. It turns out the critical … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Armor of Light”

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Roger Moore

“The Armor of Light” is a documentary of faith, a film about a dramatic conversion. The Rev. Rob Schenck doesn’t find Jesus over the course of it. He’s been an evangelical preacher for decades and a mainstay in the modern … Continue reading →

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Book Review — Judd Apatow’s “Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy”

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Roger Moore

Finally got around to Judd Apatow’s comic memoir, “Sick in the Head,” an autobiographically revealing series of Q & A’s he’s done with people in the business of funny over the decades. Decades? He started as a precocious teen, setting … Continue reading →

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Weekend movies: Praise for “Peanuts,” Bond’s “Spectre” is shaken, but not slammed

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Roger Moore

“The Peanuts Movie” is the beneficiary of a year’s worth of lowered expectations. Hey, you mention “From the creators of ‘Ice Age’” and score the commercials and trailers with modern hip hopped pop, and share nary a joke…well, what’re we … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Spectre”

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Roger Moore

James Bonds, like great athletes, rarely exit the stage gracefully. Bonds always seem to go out on stinkers, like Michael Jordan playing for the Wizards. “Spectre,” set up to be the Daniel Craig finale as Bond, isn’t a terrible installment … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Peanuts Movie”

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Roger Moore

It’s all here. From the kite-eating tree to that football Lucy never lets him kick. “You blockhead!” and “Curse you, Red Baron!” to “Good grief.” “The Peanuts Movie” is “Peanuts Greatest Hits.” The little profundities — “It’s the courage to … Continue reading →

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Fred Dalton Thompson: 1942 -2015

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Roger Moore

I got to know Fred Dalton Thompson when I worked at a newspaper in Tennessee — after the Watergate hearings and the movie “Marie,” where he played himself as a politician who helps a woman stand up to corruption — … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Suffragette”

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Roger Moore

In the best picture of 2015, Carey Mulligan is the stoic, long-suffering sweatshop worker radicalized into action. Helena Bonham-Carter the pharmacist who would have been a doctor had women in Britain been allowed into that profession. Brendan Gleeson is the … Continue reading →

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