Author Archives: Roger Moore

It’s not a terrible movie, better than some installments in the franchise. And since the last film in the series did over $100 million, Paramount has high hopes for a movie it’s dumping on the first weekend of January. Maybe … Continue reading →

With “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones”, this found footage franchise abandons the lull you to sleep creepiness of found surveillance footage for full on shaky cam and an altogether more conventional horror movie plot. But as exhausted as this series … Continue reading →

Blockbusters by the score dominated the box office of 2013, sequels — “Iron Man,” “Star Trek,” “Despicable Me” and “Monsters University” and “Hunger Games” sequels dominated. “Grownups 2,” an Wizard of Oz prequel, “Fast & Furious 6” or whatever it … Continue reading →

Disney’s animated musical “Frozen,” with virtually no competition for the family film holiday dollar (“Walking with Dinosaurs” bombed), has moved back ahead of “The Desolation of Smaug” and seems destined to finish just shy of $300 million when all the … Continue reading →

There’s a sound Japanese men make that Westerners typically only experience in the movies, a guttural, testosterone-charged bellow meant to chastise, intimidate and terrorize. It’s the pitch the camp guard uses on Allied prisoners of war, the one we hear … Continue reading →

Margo Martindale comes off as this bluff Earth Mother, sassy and droll, a woman who’s heard it all. Cast her as an aged barmaid, a cynical aunt, a grumpy mother or grandmother and let her drop a few bon mots … Continue reading →

“Frozen” continues to pile up the cash in a film field devoid of other cartoons, coming in second over the five day Christmas weekend — over $40 million. That adds up to almost $250 million in total domestic box office … Continue reading →