Author Archives: Roger Moore

One hair-raising moment in the Korean thriller “The Ghost Station,” a tale of people having subway”accidents” that look like nothing of the sort, involves cell phone tech. Someone points their cell camera down a tunnel. The focus framing outline pops … Continue reading →

Hand it to Warner Bros. for their approach to their favorite piece of Roald Dahl intellectual property. They didn’t just remake “Charlie” or “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” They took a stab at giving us a back story about … Continue reading →

It was all supposed to be “utopian.” High-rise apartment towers, surrounded by trees — and other apartment towers — would provide affordable housing, convenience, population density that makes mass transit and other service deliveries “efficient” and could create instant “community.” … Continue reading →

Hayao Miyazaki, the great Japanese animator whose name is synonymous with the anime art form, told the world he was retiring with the 2013 film “The Wind Rises.” That’s a fascinating, mostly historical World War II story about the idealistic … Continue reading →

You don’t have to be a teacher to be triggered by the tense and suspenseful drama “The Teacher’s Lounge,” Germany’s most worthy contender for a Best International Feature Oscar nomination. A gripping story of idealism battered by bruising reality, high-handed … Continue reading →

It stands to reason that a nation of “tinkerers,” motoring enthusiasts and hobbyists would be the birthplace of classic, vintage or “veteran” car restoration and collecting. A culture celebrated for its fix-it-yourself ingenuity and preserve-the-past mania would of course find … Continue reading →

Claudia Piñeiro’s novel “Elena Knows” comes to the screen as a convuluted and mournful affair, a moody murder mystery whose solution seems too obvious too soon to truly come off. Gabriela Larralde’s script transforms the compact single-day search for answers … Continue reading →

“Cuarancena” may not be the most bourgeois comedy ever to come out of the Dominican Republic. But I’ve seen a few, and I’m guessing it is, and I mean that in the most flattering way. A high-toned dark comedy that … Continue reading →

There’s something to the notion that bomb-battered and nearly bled-out Britain had more to celebrate than most after the end of World War II. That explains the time-delayed explosion of wry, giddy comedies that poured out before they’d ended rationing … Continue reading →

There was something familiar in the tropes, tricks, twists and gimmicks in 2014’s Korean thriller “A Hard Day.” A cop, in trouble and dashing about trying to cover his tracks in a corruption scandal, running over a pedestrian in his … Continue reading →