Author Archives: Roger Moore

A big but not huge Thursday night folded into a robust Friday take and “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” proved there’s still fan interest in pairing 50somethings Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and that what the box office has needed … Continue reading →

So this summer’s dumb, gonzo shark movie is French, and is about endangered sharks “evolving” and taking their “swim-eat-procreate” act up the River Seine to Paris. “Under Paris” lives down to that “dumb” label, with diver after diver suiting up, … Continue reading →

There’s nothing novel or new about “Edge of Everything.” But for half a century, every generation has needed its cinematic essay on growing up in a heedless rush. Comedy or tragedy, cartoonish or cautionary, “Sixteen Candles” or “thirteen,” “Edge of … Continue reading →

Gassed, winded and showing its/their age, those “Bad Boys” are back — wise-cracking, trash-talking, gun-slinging and coping with their own mortality for “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” The franchise is almost 30 years old and its action stars are well … Continue reading →

I think there were trailers to three hit man movies in a row before my screening of “Bad Boys.” This one stars Dave Bautista, serves up Sofia Boutella as the love interest who doesn’t have a clue what her man … Continue reading →

It’s hard for any film buff to believe that the famed British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ever went out of fashion. The co-writers and producers, with Powell doing the directing and Pressburger taking the lead on … Continue reading →

“Ride” is a somber, tense Texas melodrama about a rodeo family faced with a sick daughter, a prodigal, substance-abusing son fresh out of prison and the bankrupting power of the American healthcare system. Director and co-star Jake Allyn gave good … Continue reading →

Well, isn’t just the most doggoned adorable kid-friendly adventure movie trailer we’ve seen in ages? “Illusionist” dad returns for the first time in a decade, tween daughter sets out with him in search of an elusive panther. New Zealand co-stars … Continue reading →

The movie that sealed John Woo‘s reputation, and the genre with which he’d be most comfortable in the years to come, was 1986’s “A Better Tomorrow,” a gangland shoot-em-up that featured his longtime muse, tall, cool action icon Chow Yun-Fat. … Continue reading →

Whatever intrigues, insights and darkly comic charms writer-director Savi Gabizon gave audiences for his oddball Israeli dramedy “Longing” are mostly lost in translation in a Richard Gere remake he filmed in Canada. A tale of a middle-aged man who learns … Continue reading →