Author Archives: Roger Moore

Kevin Hart produced this Canadian mockumentary, which played Up North and comes to Prime Video on Halloween. Looks cutesy, and sort of mockumentary ish.

Ali Larter, Madison Wolfe, Sean Astin and Brec Bassinger are the stars of this “true story” of a Florida serial killer NOT named Ted Bundy. “I think he’s following me.” “You have to stop over-exaggerating.” Not often we get that … Continue reading →

Willem Dafoe’s presence gives away the A24 take on a vampiric Gremlin monster rescued by a tweenage girl. A Scandinavian music video director brings this tale to the screen next spring.

Mom’s raising the kids in California, but “In the Summers” they go to Las Cruces, New Mexico to stay with their troubled but loving father. This saga about kids growing up with and without their dad did the festival circuit, … Continue reading →

“Advanced Chemistry” is a sex farce, which is not to be confused with “romantic comedy” as a genre, although that distinction has rarely been applied to a more “PG” picture. Clunky, timid and tame-right-to-the-edge-of-chaste, it’s a dull dive into biochemistry, … Continue reading →

Osgood Perkins was an actor who became a writer and then a writer-director (“Longlegs,” “Gretel & Hansel”), and now he’s tackling a Stephen King short story. Horror hits home via a wind up “Monkey” Feb. 22.

A little holiday cheer is expressed and even more is shown, or at least sampled, in “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.” And almost nothing is explained. The idea behind Tyler Taormina’s (“Ham on Rye”) warm, aimless and largely laugh-free Christmas … Continue reading →