Author Archives: Roger Moore

The Swiss drama “A Forgotten Man” is an intriguing if not wholly satisfying dip into a piece of little debated history, Switzerland’s dubious “neutrality” during World War II. Writer-director Laurent Nègre, inspired by a play by Thomas Hürlimann, seeks to … Continue reading →

Every indie film — if it’s “indie” enough — is a teachable moment in the sorts of story you can tell with very little money, a catchy conceit and the best assets you have at hand. Sometimes those assets include … Continue reading →

The stumbling French Netflix remake of “The Wages of Fear,” a 1953 thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot, whetted my appetite for re-watching that touchstone tale of desperate men taking on a suicidal job, each for his own grim reasons. But none … Continue reading →

Hunter Schafer stars as a young woman who moves with Dad’s (Marton Csokas) to a resort in the Bavarian Alps, a place where people with Germanic accents (Dan Stevens, et al) use words like “experiments” a tad too often for … Continue reading →

“Rest in Peace” is a sturdy Argentian thriller with too many soap operatic touches and twists for its own good. It’s a tale of escaping a messy life through a horrific but all-too-convenient historical event, the bombing of a Jewish … Continue reading →

Movies that look as if the cast had too much fun making them are often cursed. But “Repo Man,” a cult sci-fi comedy from 1984, has long been the exception to that rule. Loopy to the point of gonzo, scruffy … Continue reading →

A Mother-Child coming-of-age drama about coming of age depressed, and a mother led out of depression by, perhaps, her little girl? It’s a period piece set in 1991 and therefor a “personal” tale by actress, turned writer and now first-time … Continue reading →

I’m not sure of the reaction “across the pond” to the journalism-in-action drama “Scoop,” an account of how the BBC landed its monarchy-rocking intervew that proved the utter undoing of then-Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. On this side of … Continue reading →

They gather, boarded for a week at college campuses in all 50 states — smart, bright competitive teenage girls selected to participate in one of America’s oldest mock-government institutions. The young women of each state’s “Girls State” debate issues, campaign … Continue reading →

The worst thing about keeping a cinephile’s bucket list is that you never know what you’ve been missing until you hunt for something you know you’ve missed. “Brute Force” might be the greatest prison break movie from the film noir … Continue reading →