Author Archives: Roger Moore

One shouldn’t read too much into the turnout of a late matinee “preview” showing of a potential weekend blockbuster. But if a movie is showing to roughly three times as many folks as I normally see at a Thursday afternoon … Continue reading →

The nonsense slides by like lava on a wintry day in “Godzilla v. Kong: The New Empire,” a cheerfully stupid “kaiju” movie that isn’t as interesting as the licensing agreements that put a Hollywood creature feature creation on screen with … Continue reading →

Cedric? Maria Bakalova? Christian Slater? Dan Levy? Bill Burr? Fred Armisen? James Marsden? HUGH GRANT? Jerry Seinfeld directs this giggling star farce about the breakfast wars between Post, Kellog’s and um, “Quaker Oats,” which premieres on Netflix May 3. The … Continue reading →

Vicky Krieps co-stars in this French-flavored Civil War-era vengeance Western. Garrett Dillahunt and Danny Huston also star in this May 31 release. Looks gritty, and has lots of film fest hype juicing it.

Maverick filmmaker Nicholas Ray was well on his way to “Johnny Guitar,” “Rebel Without A Cause”and “Bigger than Life” when he followed up his big Bogart break “A Lonely Place” with “On Dangerous Ground,” an intense troubled cop thriller with … Continue reading →

“Poor Things” and “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos has found a rep company that works, so Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe are back for this next outing, joined by Margaret Qualley and Jesse Plemons, Hong Chou. I heartily approve of … Continue reading →

It often seems, on a personal as well as cultural level, that the F-bomb has lost all power to shock. And then a comedy comes along to remind us of the colorful ugliness and delicacy of language and how it … Continue reading →

“The Talk of the Town” is a lightly-amusing, mildly-suspenseful, engagingly-acted and solidly-constructed comic melodrama, a pleasant enough time-killer from director George Stevens and featuring a rogueish Cary Grant, a charming and plucky Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman at his most … Continue reading →

Film critics are like baseball umpires. Right and wrong are relative, so “consistency” is what matters. If I panned the original “Top Gun,” kicked its sequel “Maverick” and torched the Chinese knockoff “Born to Fly,” it’s not as if I’m … Continue reading →

Max Patkin had been “The Clown Prince of Baseball” for 40 years before “Bull Durham” came along and preserved his act for all time. Writer-director Ron Shelton, a former minor league infielder, remembers basically building his Kevin Costner/Susan Sarandon/Tim Robbins … Continue reading →