Author Archives: Roger Moore

A cutesie calamity of a sci-fi cartoon, “Borderlands” tosses Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis into an Eli Roth Cuisanart of crap, a movie where Kevin Hart should have been happy to take third, fourth or fifth billing. … Continue reading →

The idea, which two Afflecks and a Damon produced, one Affleck co-wrote and an Affleck and a Damon star in, was to throw Casey and Matt, Ving and Ron Perlman, Toby Jones and Alfred Molina and Hong Chau at a … Continue reading →

There’s something refreshing about seeing Zach Braff renew his “Scrubs” card with a lighter-than-lightweight rom-com that leans into the “sensitive” side which he’s always played for laughs. In “French Girl,” he’s trying to impress his hockey-crazed Canadian in-laws to be, … Continue reading →

Willem Dafoe and a mostly unknown cast of look-alikes take us back to 1975 with Lorne and Jane and Chevy and Gilda and Garrett and Dan and Laraine and Belushi, with Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman, as “Saturday Night” — … Continue reading →

Interns get to meet a volcano via their ranger supervisor in this travelogue with dramatic elements. The novelty in this scenic tale is the fact that it was shot with an erupting volcano — lava flows, the works — right … Continue reading →

The laughs are cute and spare in the Swiss comedy “Golden Years,” a movie more interested in looking at what the novelist Tom Robbins said was the “ONLY” question in life worth asking — “How to make love stay.” Are … Continue reading →

A mercenary mission goes wrong, very wrong, in this Sept. 20 thriller from the director of “Assassin’s Bullet.” Rhona Mitra also stars.

An Oscar-winner-adorned series coming to Apple TV+, “Disclaimer” is about journalistic unmasking of revered institutions. In addition to Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville and Kodi Smit-McPhee also star in Alfonso Cuaron’s adaptation of … Continue reading →

If you didn’t live through the ’70s, you can still pick up a pretty good idea of what the decade looked and felt like through the movies released and set then. The working class grime, paranoia and diminished expectations wasn’t … Continue reading →

Saban sent this “trailer,” which is actually a sample scene — “garage ambush.” They’re probably in a rush, seeing as how “Duchess” is sneaking into release Friday. Colm Meany is in the cast, Charlotte Kirk has the title role. Neil … Continue reading →