Author Archives: Roger Moore

Well, thank God that “Squared Love” romance is settled and done with. Again. Those crazy lovebirds, teacher Monika (Adrianna Chlebicka) and high-living influencer Enzo (Mateusz Banasiuk) have had not one but TWO Polish rom-coms to fall hard and tie the … Continue reading →

Elham was beaten, almost to death, by her abusive husband. When she gets out of the hospital, the only place she feels at peace — normal — is in the sea, swimming. As the daughter of a famous freestyle wrestler, … Continue reading →

“Showdown in Yesteryear” is an exceptionally-pokey indie Old West fantasy about an aged John Wayne-worshipping stable boy who finds himself transported back to @1880, Dogwood Pass. It’s ambitious enough, making use of an Ohio “Old West” town attraction, but clumsily … Continue reading →

Screen adaptations of popular Broadway comedies were all the rage during the ’60s, as the cinema struggled to figure out what to do to break the grip of TV. Most of them, even the hits (Neil Simon’s shows), aren’t aging … Continue reading →

What a daft and twee thing “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose” is. And God help anybody trying to market this dry, eccentric comedy built around the charms of Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, Christopher Lloyd and sci-fi author Neil Gaiman … Continue reading →

The many melodramatic touches would almost certainly have marred my experience of “The Fallen Bridge,” had this mystery thriller been a formulaic Hollywood product. But it’s Chinese — VERY Chinese — and that adds layers of meaning to even mundane … Continue reading →

A solid Helen Mirren turn in the title role gets lost in a choppy narrative and haze of cigarette smoke in “Golda,” a bio-pic about Israel’s controversial but (apparently) far-sighted prime minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The film … Continue reading →

Tom Wolfe coined a Fitzgerald worth of phrases as he defined his era, the 60s through the early 2000s. He changed how we think of hippies, astronauts, New Yorkers, Wall Streeters, rich Southerners and, thanks to his dapper, larger than … Continue reading →

“The Running Man” is a heavy-handed 1960s crime-and-greed parable that has nothing to do with the 1980s Richard Bachman (Stephen King) novel or the Schwarzenegger film made from that. This version is most interesting because it’s built around a superbly-sinister … Continue reading →

The characters are self-decribed “archetypal cliches” fated to die “long, drawn out deaths.” And as they’re horror fans often commenting on the conventions of the genre, it’s safe to label “Killer Book Club” what it is — a Spanish “Scream” … Continue reading →