Author Archives: Roger Moore

The two most beaten-to-death tropes in thrillers? “Serial Killers” and “Hit Men.” Here’s a Richard Linklater “true story” movie about a college prof (Powell of “Anyone But You,” “Top Gun: Maverick”) whom the police use as a play-acting fake “hit-man” … Continue reading →

The blood flows, “Swan Lake” plays on 78 rpm records and “tiny dancer” jokes abound in the revolting and funny “Abigail,” a “dead before dawn” thriller about a kid ballerina kidnap victim who turns out to be a vampire. One … Continue reading →

A driven and heartless tabloid photographer finally grasps why some cultures believe a photograph steals part of your soul in “Disappear Completely,” a cerebral and seriously stylish thriller from Mexico. It’s a tale of supernatural comeuppance for a do-anything-for-the-shot mercenary … Continue reading →

“The Big Bend” is a classic “film festival movie.” That’s a quirky indie with several elements that land it in lots of film festivals, where audiences who are down for anything new and novel might find and embrace it. Such … Continue reading →

The wee ballerina with the ever-so-sharp teeth tale looks to be a classic “Ten Little Indians,” Who will survive her thriller, with splatter film bloodletting. The names in the cast some will recognize will include young Kathryn Newton, pretty Melissa … Continue reading →

Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is a jaunty burlesque of the conventions of the combat commando film. Peopled with genuine characters, in every meaning of that phrase, and a piece of the real history that inspired Ian Fleming … Continue reading →

Here we are and here we go. Review to post by 11 Eastern if I’m lucky. (The review is now live, posted here).

“Deadly Justice” is a C or D movie thriller so badly scripted, amateurishly-acted and stridently-scored that you wonder where the money to make it, or make it all better, went? It was shot and set in Biloxi. Didn’t the state … Continue reading →

Penn’s not box office any more, if he ever was. Wildly unpopular with a certain political fringe, not all that popular with any other political fringes. Dakota Johnson is a much-abused and rightly-so nepo baby star without a whole lot … Continue reading →

Aaron Eckhart throws himself and some mid-fight grace notes at “The Bricklayer,” another CIA agent brought back in to “fix” a screw-up run amok within and without The Agency. It’s not “The Beekeeper,” but Eckhart commits to the part and … Continue reading →