Author Archives: Roger Moore

The story of “The Immigrant” is, for many, the American story — a struggle to get to The Promised Land, to be allowed to stay and live the American Dream. But few would choose to own this take on that … Continue reading →

These days, Adam Sandler is a bottle of beer that’s lost all its bubbles — cheap, mass produced domestic beer.So let’s focus on what works in his latest, “Blended,” because he sure doesn’t. Drew Barrymore, in her third pairing with … Continue reading →

Leave it to the X-Men to put the fun back in summer blockbusters. Hugh Jackman, in the role he was coiffed to play, and the rest of the crew from pretty much every film in this past, present and future … Continue reading →

“The Love Punch” is an empty-headed nothing of a caper comedy, a movie whose moves are so obvious and obviously absurd that even a moment’s scrutiny lets the gas right out of the balloon.But darned if those high-mileage troopers Emma … Continue reading →

“Words and Pictures” is the cloying title of a cloying little comedy made by talented people who, not that long ago, deserved better than this, and knew it.It’s a nearly two-hour long “meet cute” academic romance from the director of … Continue reading →

  He was one of the greatest of the greats from the Golden Age of cinematographers as painters, the American Sven Nyqvist or Vittorio Storarro. Gordon Willis shot gorgeous looking Westerns (“Bad Company”), stunning mob epics (“The Godfather”) and the … Continue reading →

Audiences prone to going to a movie’s opening weekend are even more prone to dash off to a movie they’re dying to see late night Thursday or Friday. Especially with regards to summer popcorn pictures. So…”Godzilla” shot his wad Friday. … Continue reading →

Those sneaky French — turning a romantic comedy into a trilogy, maybe even a franchise, without even telling us.It started in 2002, in Barcelona, with a bunch of foreign exchange students — meeting, flirting and falling into one another’s arms … Continue reading →