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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Movie Review– “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine”
The difference between an “authorized” biography and one that isn’t sanctioned by the subject and his or her family/company is laid bare in “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.” “Official” biographer Walter Isaacson, whose all-access, occasionally unflattering biography is … Continue reading
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Lawrence, Scarlett and McCarthy are the world’s best paid actresses — this year
Forbes has done its annual numbers crunching and compiled/concocted its “Best Paid Actrresses” list, and Jennifer “Katniss” Lawrence tops it, earning over $52 million over the past year. Scarlett Johannson had a VERY good year to come in second. Lots … Continue reading
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Box Office: “Compton” wins again, “Mission” closes in on $200 million, “Ultra” flops
“Straight Outta Compton” had a week of blowback — women coming forward to complain about the misogyny and beatings they endured from Dr. Dre and other members of NWA, bad “messages” within the film’s cheesy underclad groupie scenes. And it … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Curse of Downer’s Grove”
Bret “Less Than Zero/American Psycho” Easton Ellis never quite got over the ’80s. You can see it in every movie he has a hand in, since that’s where the novelist seems to make his rent money these days. He’s not … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Being Evel”
Someday, there’ll be an opera about Evel Knievel. And Johnny Knoxville, his biggest fan, will probably compose it. But for now there’s the Knoxville-produced “Being Evel,” a warts-and-all documentary about the daredevil-hustler, that for all its inherent evil — and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “American Ultra”
Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg dress down and cover themselves with bruises, fake-cuts and gore for the ultra violent “American Ultra.” And if they don’t cover themselves in glory, at least these reunited “Adventureland” co-stars do justice to this testicles-on-the-tarmac … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Finding Vivian Maier”
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” Harlan Ellison titled one of his science fiction short stories. That’s as perfect an expression of an artist’s experience of “quiet desperation” as has ever been put on the page. Vivian Maier … Continue reading
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Owen Wilson’s “Go to” lines — summarized
Here it is, every arrow in the Butterscotch Stallion’s quiver. With “No Escape” dumped in the No Hit Zone of the end of August (Aug. 26), Wilson is in the latter stages of his film stardom. But here’s a video … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Marshland”
The novel place and time are the only distinguishing characteristics of “Marshland,” a Spanish serial killer thriller set in the years just after the death of the dictactor Francisco Franco. Those were wild, unbridled times in the cities of Spain, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Keeping Room”
“The Keeping Room” is a self-consciously gritty and minimalist female empowerment thriller that could have just been three pretty actresses getting down and Scarlett O’Hara dirty in the waning days of the Civil War. But those three players transcend this … Continue reading
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