Author Archives: Roger Moore

By this point in the virus’s decades-long mutation, we’ve seen pretty much everything zombies have to throw at us. They won’t die, even as their corpses rot and turn green, and they’re always on the (usually slow) hunt for brains … Continue reading →

The problem with any screen romance between someone from the Hassidic community and an outsider is the limited range of outcomes. Either the Hassidic character, say she’s a woman as in John Turturro’s comedy Fading Gigolo,” turns her back on … Continue reading →

Reputation suggests you could conjure a half-decent B-movie out of Dolph Lundgren and martial arts dynamo Tony “Ong Bak” Jaa. Especially if their supporting cast includes Ron Perlman as a Slavic mobster, Peter Weller as a Jersey-accented cop, Michael Jai … Continue reading →

She flips off the nuns who took her in and educated her, is fond of profanity and wasn’t above a little premarital sex. It was the “Swinging Sixties,” after all. By any measure, Christina Noble was not your average heroine … Continue reading →

The world long ago figured out who this Arnold Schwarzenegger fellow is supposed to be on the big screen. And the actor has always been comfortable with this image. “The most heroic guy in the biggest action movie of the … Continue reading →

There’s an alien feel to “Slow West,” an unconventionally convention Western about a romantic tenderfoot provided safe passage to the frontier by a grizzled, unsentimental gunman. Credit the New Zealand locations — fresh and convincingly Western with nary a hobbit … Continue reading →

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” did spectacular business late Thursday and all day Friday. It’s now projected to open just below the first “Avengers”, the second best opening weekend of all time at the U.S. box office. Deadline.com suggests that Saturday … Continue reading →

See Helen Hunt surf. Check out how well-preserved Helen Hunt looks in a wetsuit. Remember how good Helen Hunt handles biting, witty banter. See Helen–or her character — try a little pot and get giggly. Yes, “Ride” is the very … Continue reading →

The enthusiasm for the “Avengers” franchise has waned a bit. At least among critics, perhaps even among cast and crew. Not that they so much show it, but you can sort of feel a “do my bit, do it well, … Continue reading →

Spandau Ballet launched the “New Romantics” movement in pop’s New Wave, the music that blended punk and disco and fashion and paved the way for the “hair metal” and hip hop that followed as reactions to it. But Duran Duran, … Continue reading →