Author Archives: Roger Moore

“From Italy with Amore” is like pasta your local Olive Garden left standing in water overnight. It’s shapeless, tasteless, inedible goo, and about as Italian as Chico Marx. The “Italy” here is a “we make our own pasta for our … Continue reading →

The French director of “Johnny Mad Dog”  puts Penn, Sheridan, Katherine Waterston, Mike Tyson and Michael Pitt through their paces for this March 29 release. Looks like a solid genre drama.

This looks like a step away from the blockbusters she’s typically associated with on the big screen (“Greatest Showman,” “Spider-Man,” “Dune”). Let’s see how a pixie-pretty leading lady holds the picture together in a dramedy about tennis and love matches … Continue reading →

“The Peasants” is a film based on a village life melodrama of the same title written by the Pole Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont in four massive volumes in the 1920s. Even the fact that Reymont won the Nobel Prize for literature … Continue reading →

The cinema of Stanley Kramer is marked by movies that touched, directly or indirectly, matters of great social import and social justice. Race and racism messages were carried in “The Defiant Ones” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” The perils … Continue reading →

Mother Frances Cabrini was an Italian born nun whose advocacy of charity through her Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which built schools, hospitals and orphanages all over the world and led to her being canonized as the … Continue reading →

“Mea Culpa” is the most over-the-top, lurid and hyper-sexualized soap opera Tyler Perry has ever served up. Sure, it’s a thriller, and by the pull-out-all-the-stops finale, it acts like it. But soapy, turgid trash is one of the guy’s brands … Continue reading →

One Coen Brother is either not enough, or one too many. If it’s the wrong Coen. Oh brother. That’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” a crude, clunky and carnal romp that runs bits and pieces of “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo” and “Burn Before Reading” … Continue reading →

“Ordinary Angels” is a kind-hearted weeper that gets by on good vibes and the talents of the Unsinkable Hilary Swank. Based on a true story, it’s a faith-based film about what people can do when they act out of compassion, … Continue reading →

Talk about your cinematic hot potatoes. “Club Zero” is a drama played out in the soft-spoken tones of self-help speak, a satire on the indulged habits of indulged children of the indulgent rich. It’s about food and the swirl of … Continue reading →