Author Archives: Roger Moore

“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 →

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 →

“Sting” is a solid no-big-stars B-picture thriller about an itsy bitsy spider who gets chatty, then awfully big as it tears through a New York apartment building in the middle of a blizzard. Naturally, it was filmed in Australia. The … Continue reading →

One rarely channel surfs past “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” when it pops up on broadcast or cable TV. Renewing your acquiantance with the funniest movie of 1975 and probably the silliest movie ever made is a guilty pleasure … Continue reading →

Eighty-four years old, sharp as a tack and still damned funny, John Cleese charmed, tickled and regaled a packed house at Greater Orlando’s Enzian Theater last night as a special event for this year’s Florida Film Festival. He talked about … Continue reading →

Decades of co-starring human actors with CGI animated ones in kiddie comedies haven’t exactly produced a new golden age for children’s entertainment. A hit here and there, but nothing you can imagine kids embracing, generation after generation, has been the … Continue reading →