Author Archives: Roger Moore

Here’s information you need before settling in to watch the surreal indie dramedy “Entertainment.” The star is Gregg Turkington, and the character he’s performing is named Neil Hamburger, Turkington’s stage alter ego, aka “The World’s Worst Comic.” Which, from the … Continue reading →

“Oh no,” I said to myself, noting the presence of another “new” book about Orson Welles. “Definitive,” I thought. Again. “The last word,” I was sure.  Again. No other life in film has been so devoured, pored over and parsed. … Continue reading →

“Band of Robbers” is more a clever conceit than a satisfying, coherent and involving crime comedy. But what a conceit! It’s a modern resetting of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” with characters living out their adulthood in the patterns … Continue reading →

Put it off long enough, I figure. I got to all the films that mattered in 2015 in a timely manner, and spent entirely too long mulling over which might constitute the “ten best.” Consider — “Straight Outta Compton,””Bridge of … Continue reading →

“A long time ago…in a city far far away…I had a future,” the “hero” of the Brazilian thriller “2 Rabbits” narrates. Edgar (Fernando Alves Pinto) is handsome, well-off, loved by his restaurateur dad, and known — as a comical montage … Continue reading →

Sure, another blockbuster weekend for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is here. Over $140 million, based on Christmas Day/Friday numbers. But the shocker has to be the staying power of Will Ferrell.  “Daddy’s Home” smelled like a hit. Not with … Continue reading →

All those silly film critics, whipping out their Top Ten Lists without first catching “Point Break.” How COULD they? Call it a hunch. But after a year of blockbuster rehashes masquerading as “sequels”,  here at last is a remake that … Continue reading →

Many of us wonder about exactly who gave Quentin Tarantino the license to use the word that, historically (and often hysterically–as in comic) no black person gives any white person permission to use. Axel Rose? Not permitted. Michael Richards? Ditto. … Continue reading →

An unsettling dread hangs over the boys of “Yosemite,” a character study built around a couple of interconnected James Franco short stories from his book, “Palo Alto.” Boys talking about death. News reports (set in the early ’80s?) mentioning, about … Continue reading →

In Los Angeles, even the homeless are better looking than we could ever hope to be. With better hair and makeup, too. So that’s a comfort. I guess. “Other People’s Children” is an indie drama featuring a bunch of quite … Continue reading →