Author Archives: Roger Moore

Small town corruption, criminal family ties, firearm fetishizing and violence. Andie Mac as a VILLAIN? Ooooo. Feb. 23.

The beautiful young thing takes a moment, sailing a half million dollar sloop past a cliffside villa on coastal Portugal, to turn to the male model next to her, point out that villa and say “That’s my dream.” We don’t … Continue reading →

This fantastical immigration farce written, directed by and starring Torres, finally has a March theatrical and streaming release date. A24 has been sitting on it for a bit, despite rapturous festival reviews. March 1. Check it out.

“The Promised Land” is a “troubles on the farm” thriller, with a lone stoic battling the elements, greedy nobles and the sandy, infertile soil itself in an effort to tame the place and make his fortune. It’s “Places in the … Continue reading →

“Origin” is an important film, a movie that attempts to tie — in intellectual terms — the oppression and enslavement of Africans in the Americas with the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the immobility of India’s “untouchable” “caste” … Continue reading →

With only her fading cell phone and an emergency operator to save her. Jan. 26, we’ll see how this turns out.

There are few things a working critic dreads more these days than the prospect of reviewing a two hour long+ movie on the Yugo of movie streaming providers, Indee.TV. I have two movies to get through today, both falling on … Continue reading →

Chinese-Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen lets us in on his favorite films from film school with “The Breaking Ice,” a Chinese love triangle redolent in images, themes and situations of The French New Wave. There are references to Truffaut’s “Jules et … Continue reading →

A young Belarusian immigrant finds himself questioning his “deal” with the French Foreign Legion — enlistment and service in exchange for citizenship — after a particularly brutal combat encounter in “Disco Boy,” a dreamy Immigrant’s Experience Odyssey from writer-director Giacomo … Continue reading →

This looks lovely, affectionate and nostalgic. Speaking as someone who was a celluloid projectionist in college and a cinema critic pretty much ever since, I mean.