Author Archives: Roger Moore

Former child actress Sasha Pieterse has the dual role lead, with Parker Young the hunk trapped in the sites of twin sisters up to no good. Nestor Carbonell and Mira Sorvino also star.

One Twitter wag this morning called “SCTV” comic Joe Flaherty “an American so cool we all thought he was Canadian.” Flaherty, an Emmy winner on TV (“Freaks & Geeks” was his other famous series) and a mainstay in movies, from … Continue reading →

The fights are furious but the convoluted political thriller surrounding them slows “Heart of the Hunter” down. It’s a South African action flick with almost as many characters and agendas as tribes and regional languages as the country itself. We … Continue reading →

This festival darling makes its way into release Friday, and it looks to be a hoot and a half.

Released just as the Vietnam War was peaking (1966-67), and shown in repertory houses throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s, “King of Hearts” is the sort of cute, quaint cult film that cannot fully flower out of its own … Continue reading →

Actress, artist, model and ’60s “It” girl, the most famous guise Anita Pallenberg appeared under was “muse.” She was linked to a lot of people who considered her thus, as she came to embody the mod, swinging “La Dolce Vita” … Continue reading →

The cast is good, the action beats solid and the explosions are epic in the latest French updating of an all-time action classic, “The Wages of Fear.” But almost everything else about this version ranges from “inferior” to “clumsy” to … Continue reading →

If there’s one myth that dies the hardest about the comedian, writer, dancer, banjo virtuoso and art collector Steve Martin, it’s that he’s “unknowable.” Shy, “very private,” soft-spoken and guarded in interviews that aren’t chat show performances, he’s let that … Continue reading →

Listen to the sound effects — all the bones and cartilege cracking and crunching and what not. Jean-Claude Van Damme is entirely too old for this s—. Perhaps there’s money in pairing him up with Liam Neeson at some point … Continue reading →

The preview to this June 7 release is enough to make one ponder just what ends a career, or signals the beginning of the end. Martin Lawrence was old news 20 years ago, infamous on my side of the industry … Continue reading →