Author Archives: Roger Moore

“The Channel” is a super-violent cops-and-robbers shoot-em-up set in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans. It’s built around “Heat” scaled shootouts between Tac’d to the max ex-military bank robbers, and New Orleans PD, SWAT and an FBI bank robbery … Continue reading →

“Two Tickets to Greece” kicks off like too many other Grecian idylls, with a woman in need of getting her spark, zest for life, belief in love or “groove” back setting off for sunny Greece. But this variation on a … Continue reading →

“The Modelizer” is a sex-comedy masquerading as a wish-fulfillment fantasy romance, sort of a “Crazy Rich Womanizing Asians,” and pretty much as insufferable as that sounds. Veteran supporting player Byron Mann — “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” “The Big … Continue reading →

“Gold Brick” is a twisty French heist picture that leans on the “cute.” It’s a “Get even with the rich” scheme that involves pilfering perfume from France’s Chartres-centered “Cosmetics Valley” distribution chain. It’s more of a “How to” heist picture … Continue reading →

I was about five minutes into re-watching “The Cincinnati Kid” when it struck me that I needed to read or re-read director Norman Jewison’s autobiography, or hunt down the recent biography of the Canadian director. He’s not exactly an obscure … Continue reading →

“Beauty and the Beast” may have been put in book form by a Frenchwoman in the 18th century. But as Disney and lyricist Howard Ashman reminded us, it’s a “tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.” Researchers … Continue reading →

The first tune that grabs your attention in this horror film, directed by and starring Patrick Wilson, is a re-recorded Kevin Cronin cover of REO Speedwagon’s “Roll with the Changes.” The second is a peculiar little flourish playing on the … Continue reading →

Patrick Wilson has become something of the poster boy for “When Good Actors Do Horror.” One thing you can be sure of, when Wilson does an “Annabelle,” “Insidious” or “Conjuring” movie, when something that can’t be happening starts happening, he’s … Continue reading →

The cognescenti burn a lot of electrons typing out odes to the adored, enduring superhero of science fiction, Philip K. Dick. But the ongoing appeal of a writer who arrived on the scene right after the author of “Do Androids … Continue reading →

The reason we mention the credits of actors, writers and directors in reviews of their films is that “past is prologue” and “What you’ve done is what film producers will let you do again.” “The Out-Laws” is from Adam Sandler’s … Continue reading →