Author Archives: Roger Moore

Pretty damned ambitious the streaming network Netflix to take on a period piece with a Big Name Star, an acclaimed director and a Scottish icon as its subject. Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephen Dillane and Florence Pugh star in David … Continue reading →

Coming of age tales are such a summer thing. Why’s Freestyle releasing this one AFTER summer? Beats me. More 1980s nostalgia, the big “name” in this is the “legend” of the beach, played by the great character comic Peter Stormare. … Continue reading →

Stu Sanders Wade Barrett is a British wrestler and bare-knuckle boxer turned big screen action hero, where he goes by the name “Stu Bennett.”  He’s of that Schwarzenegger/Dave Bautista/John Cena class of Action Jacksons, a man mountain any lesser mortal … Continue reading →

Screen comedy has given us a few seriously, unintentionally inappropriate parent/child relationships, mostly in the films of Cameron Crowe — Mother/Son in “Almost Famous,” Father/Daughter in “Say Anything.” But those have nothing on the sometimes amusing, always creepy Mother-Son weirdness … Continue reading →

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” the poet said. People don’t like change, we understand it to mean. If only Florence Green knew the poets as well as she loved novelists, she could have avoided a world … Continue reading →

“Dead Envy” is a micro-budget indie thriller that doesn’t give away its credit-card financing. Slick, musical and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, Harley Di Nardo’s “make work for myself” project limits its settings, situations and run time to pull off a minor … Continue reading →

Netflix’s full court press into teen romantic comedies raises its won-loss percentage with “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” a well-cast, well-acted charmer from the director of “Carrie Pilby.” No, me neither, but Susan Johnson ensures this adaptation of … Continue reading →

Ike Barinholtz wrote, directed and co-stars in this “ruin Thanksgiving by talking politics with your Trumpist relatives” farce. “The Oath” has a good cast, some chuckles in the trailer, but nobody will see it. It’s with dirt-merchants Roadside Attractions, so … Continue reading →

With Hollywood largely abandoning that most distinctly America film genre, The Western, it’s encouraging that independent filmmakers and start-up studios are at least trying to revive it. But getting one to come off — the looks, sounds and feel of … Continue reading →

One of my gripes in recent years has been how the major studios have shied away from working with established directors. They’ve treated people of talent and accomplishment as dispensable, an expense they don’t need. Filmmakers find their ability to … Continue reading →