Author Archives: Roger Moore

Dark, darkly funny, surreal and nauseatingly violent, “Love Lies Bleeding” is a serious shock to the system. “Saint Maud” writer-director Rose Glass’s second feature delivers jolts, grim jokes and grisly killings in a queer noir thriller brimming over with “Bound” … Continue reading →

“One Life” is an inspiring drama about efforts to save refugee children — mostly Jewish — from Czechoslovakia in the months leading into World War II. It’s a meandering if sometimes moving story of asserting one’s humanity and appealing to … Continue reading →

“Arthur the King” is a sweetly sentimental story all but guaranteed to move any dog fancier to tears. A Mark Wahlberg star vehicle in which he’s more or less second banana to a dog — at least when they’re on … Continue reading →

If Oscar night and a scattering of “out there” movie and series turns hadn’t made it obvious, that darned John Cena is pretty Down for Anything. Nude “Best Costume” presentation, or dressing up as Alice Cooper or Britney Spears in … Continue reading →

Production designer Meghan C. Rogers cooks up a fine M.C. Escher nightmare world of doors, dead ends and perils folding in on themselves for the drawn-out finale of “Imaginary,” another variation on the sinister side of having a childhood “imaginary … Continue reading →

No Mark Wahlberg doesn’t have the title role. He’s all but doomed to be upstaged. By a dog. But he’s being a good sport about it. So here goes. (Updated, here’s my review.)

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, the work of creative people is often overwhelmed by the pathos or drama of their personal stories. That’s long seemed the case with the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Notorious for her iconic, attention-grabbing “look,” her … Continue reading →

“The Passenger” is a cinematic product of a different age, when movies could be geared for a more patient audience, one willing to embrace a mystery for mystery’s sake. Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 Hollywood outing, a Jack Nicholson star vehicle distributed … Continue reading →

A terminally ill hit-man decides to go out with a bang — a couple of bangs — by executing the guys above him on Taiwan’s “Most Wanted List” in “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon,” a new thriller from … Continue reading →

Montana’s Bitterroot Valley provides the striking locations of “Trail of Justice,” an over-ambitious and amatetuerish Western with a few decent sequences that stand out amidst the clumsy plotting, bad to indifferent acting, stilted dialogue and mixed messaging. It traipses from … Continue reading →