Author Archives: Roger Moore

Because fans do not live by movies alone.  Oscar night, Twins spring training baseball afternoon. Pretty good seats, thanks to StubHub.  Modelo beer, because it triggers the MAGA Fort Myers locals.

Denzel Washington will have the title role and that sketchy Jake Gyllenhaal will take on the venomous Iago in what is sure to be THE hot ticket on Broadway in 2025, a new production of “Othello.” Brian Anthony Moreland is … Continue reading →

The great Mexican sensualist gets a first rate bio-doc treatment from some of the people who made “RBG.” This comes to Amazon Prime March 14.

Classic films give us cineliteracy. They change the way we look at every movie afterward, how we talk about films, and they grant us entry into a new way of seeing the world and the movies about it. Movies like … Continue reading →

Millie Bobby Brown doth not suffer in silence as the tormented, burned and embattled heroine of “Damsel.” A violent upending of women’s roles in fairytale fantasies, much of it is spent with her title character struggling to escape a dragon’s … Continue reading →

Dated, comically corny but heavy-handed, pretty and production-designed to death but oh-so-sound-stagey, “Forbidden Planet” remains a touchstone film in the science fiction canon almost in spite of itself. A lot of its cachet relates to the Cold War zeitgeist that … Continue reading →

Short but slow, occasionally chilling but never quite scary, “Night Shift” is a straight-up genre thriller that embraces that most ancient and hallowed of horror tropes, “A lone woman menaced in the dark of night.” Poor pacing dooms this debut … Continue reading →

“Code 8” was an “X-Men on a Budget” thriller, reasonably well cast, with hunky mutants (not called “mutants”) and decent taser-finger effects. But it was an ungainly lump of a movie, clumsily trying to switch between criminal mutants, who are … Continue reading →

“American Dreamer” doesn’t so much end as peter (Ahem.) out, with a finale that feels like a series of compromises which no one wanted to winnow down. But if you skip the movie leading up to that, you’ll be missing … Continue reading →

There are echoes of a lot of “Making it in Nashville” tales in “The Neon Highway” — “Crazy Heart,” “Honky Tonk Man” and “Tender Mercies” among them. There’s a singer with a song he can thinks can change his life, … Continue reading →