Author Archives: Roger Moore

A just-clever-enough conceit and generally cheerful performances are almost enough to put over “The Gutter,” a coarse and comically crude bowling farce featuring an Oscar winner and a Black bowler who just might take over “the whitest sport” while no … Continue reading →

Teri Garr, a character actress always good for a giggle, who always won our sympathy and who even collected an Oscar nomination for her comedic skills, has died. A scene stealer from the mid-career films of Elvis Presley, to TV’s … Continue reading →

Searchlight is doing a swell job of convincing us Timothee can impersonate Bob Dylan. As to the story the movie tells and the way it tells it? Dec. 25 we’ll have a take on that.

This gay May-October romance is a period piece from the director of “Call Me By Your Name,” a fiction based on Burroughs’ novel and Burroughs lore, set in Mexico City in the ’50s. Craig is the protagonist, Drew Starkey could … Continue reading →

Richard Curtis, Mr. “Four Weddings” and “Love Actually,” wrote this Christmas cartoon for Netflix. So of course Bill Nighy’s in it. Fiona Shaw, Guz Khan, and Rhys Darby also take on a couple of voices. What, no Rowan Atkinson? For … Continue reading →

This doc, narrated by Bogie’s son, comes close on the heels of a recent Bogie/Bacall biography I read and reviewed and promises an equally “intimate” portrait — using home movies, old interviews, etc. Doesn’t appear all that deep and polished, … Continue reading →