Author Archives: Roger Moore

The strangeness and “festival darling” nature of this mystery/coming-of-age drama gets across in this dark and magical trailer for the latest film from “We’re Going to the World’s Fair” director Jane Schoenbrun. May 3.

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” outing takes us to snowy, remote region we outsiders used to call Lapland (Sápmi, is preferred by the locals), that treeline on the edge of the tundra in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and a bit … Continue reading →

Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is brutal, unblinking and myopic, a sour taste of what a “real” civil war in the industrialized, armed-to-the-teeth United States might look like. Garland, the thoughtful and thought-provoking auteur behind “Ex Machina,” “Annihilation” and “Men,” makes … Continue reading →

But the discerning cinephile will want to see it in IMAX . Here we go. Spoiler alert, it is Maria Menunos’ laugh that triggers the national rift that cannot be mended 

Maybe it’s just me, but strong rhymes-with-mean/rhymes-with-lecturn energy from all the trailers for this one. Or, at least a taste of “Free Guy.” I get wanting to do something for kids. Wasn’t “The Adam Project” enough? Or is Krasinski just … Continue reading →

Making any movie is like trying to paint and write, telling a story and sending a message, on the sides, roof and undercarriage of a moving train. Once that train has left the station, you’re kind of at the mercy … Continue reading →

Two couples, a “not quite right” child, and a sinister subtext. Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy are the hapless pair thrown in with McAvoy and Alex West Lifler in this version of a recent Danish film (with one couple Dutch) … Continue reading →

Not even bothering to suggest what his latest film “might” be about. That’s reputation, for you. June 21, we’ll find out.

The stakes are higher, the set pieces grander and new heroes arrive, along with new villains, in “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady,” the second half of the sprawling, brawling and fresh French take on Alexandre Dumas’ beloved novel. … Continue reading →

Don Siegel won a couple of Oscars for short films early on, did a lot of 1950s and ’60s TV, directed Elvis and John Wayne and the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” He was behind the camera for enough … Continue reading →