Author Archives: Roger Moore

As AIDS swept across America in the 1980s, the country and its many distinct subcultures were sorely tested in figuring out how to confront it. Confusion and misinformation, prejudice and superstition, genuine fear and revolting callousness all bubbled up during … Continue reading →

A little mid-August action for your cinema going pleasure. Alas, STX chose not to screen “Mile 22,” a Mark Wahlberg/Peter Berg picture, for critics. Reviews are popping up today, and I’m catching it the first showing in the small town … Continue reading →

As Deadline.com notes, the adaptation of “Crazy Rich Asians” is the first major studio release to be headlined by an almost all-Asian cast in 25 years. “The Joy Luck Club” was the last, and oddly enough, a hit. Which begs … Continue reading →

He never seems to stop smiling, and why should he? Pop phenom Ed Sheeran can improvise at will, conjure lyrics, hooks, riffs and verses out of thin air, or so it seems in his cousin’s “Songwriter” documentary. Kick around a … Continue reading →

  Oscar winner Viola Davis plays a woman married to a robber (Liam Neeson) whose gang is wiped out in a heist gone wrong. So she, Michelle Rodriguez and the other “Widows” take on that “one last job” that will … Continue reading →

“Alpha” has to stand as one of the pleasant surprises of the cinematic summer, a gritty yet sentimental fantasy about that first Ice Age boy to fall for a dog. It’s a movie with more blood and guts than Disney … Continue reading →

True story — classical pianist Don Shirley had a white tough-guy bouncer-type driver behind the wheel of his Caddy as he toured the segregated South of the 1960s. They followed the “Green Book” of places that accepted black patronage — … Continue reading →

Every so often, we remember to tape over our built-in laptop camera, turn off location tracking on our smarter-than-us phone and that there are other search engines aside from all-knowing/all-coveting Google. But for the most part, we try not to … Continue reading →

Taraji P. Henson runs up against the glass ceiling, gets a little voodoo brew help with “What Men Want” and hears every guy’s innermost thoughts. Lust, greed, passing gas, it’s all in there. Tracy Morgan also stars, but neither he … Continue reading →

  Here’s the social media era in dating perfectly summed up by a master of the “swipe right” hook-up. “It’s like going to a bar on Friday night, without everything that sucks about a bar. On Friday night.” For Harris, … Continue reading →