Author Archives: Roger Moore

“Adagio” is a classic 100 minute thriller in a 126 minute package. Director and co-writer Stefano Sollima takes his sweet time setting the scene — which he never identifies as greater Rome, Lazio — and takes even longer letting us … Continue reading →

You can’t say the dark Spanish comedy “The Coffee Table” isn’t dark enough. It involves the tragic, accidental and bloody death of an infant. But considering the subject matter, maybe the “comedy” could have gone a little further. Director and … Continue reading →

One long ago gave up any hope that Hollywood would give up any “hit” intellectual property without wringing the last drops of value out of it. But the news that there will be a third “Downton Abbey” movie, with Paul … Continue reading →

Writer-director Sarah T. Schwab’s “A Stage of Twilight” is a somber melodrama about a couple facing an end-of-life decision with despair and as much grace as either can manage, under the circumstances. It makes a fine showcase for its venerated, … Continue reading →

Vikander plays the last and perhaps toughest of the Six Wives of Henry XIII, Kateryn (Catherine) Parr, the one who tempted fate and stood up to the murderous monarch and lived to tell the tale. This summer release is from … Continue reading →

Brian Van Holt also stars in this serial killer thriller. The serial killer might be a “cop?” “The Bone Collector,” they call the man they’re hunting. Gibson plays an FBI Agent/profiler, Curtis Jackson a police chief. This Lionsgate release drops … Continue reading →

Theater actor Keith Kupferer and daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer star in this dramedy about what it takes to create a problem child, and how acting can connect even people who have trouble remembering their lines to their feelings. June 14, … Continue reading →

Maverick movie maker, indie icon, “Pope of Pop Cinema,” sponsor of the careers of the great and near great, Roger Corman made a singular mark on the movies over a career that spanned half a century. Directors Demme and Coppola … Continue reading →

Long before its gambling revival and later slow return to decay, long before Louis Malle’s 1980 drama “Atlantic City,” the historic but forlorn resort city had been emblematic of American ennui, a place of elegaic, baroque nostalgia and decline. The … Continue reading →

Slick, sex-uped and maddeningly-shallow, “The Courier” is another variation on the “get rich quick via money-laundering” formula based on real events that roiled Europe and Spain in the early 2000s. We learn precious little about the backers, reasons (real estate … Continue reading →