Author Archives: Roger Moore

Look at the sight gags, reason out the plot, read the jokey subtitles. Aug 30.

Melanie Thompson, Bryce Harrow and Marisa Hood are part of a”Surprise!” Birthday party where things go wrong. And romantic? August 13.

“The Beautiful Summer (La bella estate)” is a sumptuous Italian period piece, a “discovering my sexuality” romance that’s gorgeous to look at, frame by frame. But when the frame moves, the story those images slowly tell is shallow and slight, … Continue reading →

“My Man Godfrey” struck a nerve when it opened in the middle of The Great Depression. It’s a nerve that it strikes to this very day. A movie that presents the idle rich as “empty-headed nitwits,” with even the more … Continue reading →

This low-budget kid-friendly thriller features Mel as a “retired” detective named “Old Man” something or other, summoned by tweens and teens who think something monstrous is going on this season in Martha’s Vineyard. Lorraine Bracco and Kevin James (?) also … Continue reading →

It often seems to me that when it comes to “on the spectrum” characters, the movies have never managed to progress beyond the Hugh Dancy/Rose Byrne Asperger’s romance “Adam,” which came out some 15 years ago. Screenwriters take liberties, making … Continue reading →

Jay Pharaoh and Jim Gaffigan are in the supporting cast of this Lionsgate farce about people learning exactly how many days they have left on this Earth, and making their love-life/future-life decisions based on that. This is clumsy trailer that … Continue reading →

That “magnificent” hulking, “talking, pratfall-taking sight gag that is Dave Bautista” didn’t get the lesson that maybe a violent action film pairing him with a little girl wasn’t the best idea after “My Spy.” It wasn’t a box office hit, for … Continue reading →

Eddie vamps up this new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson story, with Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Robyn Cara and Jonathan Hyde (Why not?) in support. Has anybody ever asked Eddie Izzard what he thinks of Ricky Gervais and David … Continue reading →

Even a casual Marx Brothers fan knows that the siblings made their best films for their first Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures. Already vaudeville veterans pushing past 40, they made their satiric masterpiece, “Duck Soup”(1933) and the wacky stage adaptations “The … Continue reading →