Monthly Archives: April 2020

Movie Review: A psychological drama as chilly as its setting, Iceland’s “A White, White Day”

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

An eerily beautiful long, foggy drive on an Icelandic spring morning opens “A White, White Day,” Iceland’s contender for this past year’s Best International (foreign language) Oscar. That drive ends with a Volvo wagon going through a guard rail — … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars in “Walkaway Joe”

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

An introspective tale of a loner, a kid looking for his dad, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and David Straithairn. Screenwriter Michael Milillo all but calls his work an “American classic” on IMDB. Gosh. Tempting karma, critical ridicule, etc. “In the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Mysterious quiet of “El Silencio es Bienvenido”

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

“El Silencio es bienvenido” is an inscrutable parable about the trials of a family vacation punctuated with a mystery perhaps meant to deliver a “moral to the story.” The debut feature of Gabriela García Rivas doesn’t give us much. It … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Little Chris Hemsworth combat action — “Extraction

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

April 24 on Netflix.

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Movie Preview: More Fear of Fetuses — “The Unborn”

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

Is abortion like a hot new horror theme?“The Perished,”which is out this week, and now “The Unborn” — “coming soon.”

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Netflixable? Give these guys a “Spenser Confidential” franchise

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Roger Moore

If this is where the Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg filmmaking team winds up, making gritty-jokey “Spenser” movies for Netflix, I’m fine with that. Tone counts for everything in action mysteries like this, and the team that made “Lone … Continue reading →

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Netflix Preview: “Love. Wedding. Repeat.” goes for a little of that “Death at a Funeral” farce magic

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Roger Moore

Olivia Munn is the big name from this side of the pond in this Britcom/Romcom. But Freida Pinto’s a big deal internationally, and Sam Claflin’s pretty high up in the name rec charts. Writer-director Dean Craig?He did “Death at a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Whatever you do, don’t get OFF the road in the “Outback,” mate!

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Roger Moore

Lionsgate’s got a no-budget/no-name cast cult thriller in the making, here.

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Movie Review: Holocaust Survivors will do anything to say “Bye Bye Germany”

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Roger Moore

The opening image of “Bye Bye Germany” is of a three-legged dog, hopping out of a “Displaced Persons” repatriation camp in Frankfort months after the end of World War II. That’s the perfect metaphor for the story to be told … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? One endless, charmless “Summer Night”

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Roger Moore

“Summer’s Night” plays like the bastard child of Richard “Slacker” Linklater and Cameron “Singles” Crowe, lashing out, rebelling against its parents by being charmless, humorless and clueless about its own blindness and inadequacies. I was amazed at how writer Jordan … Continue reading →

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