Author Archives: Roger Moore

It’s taken a lot of intestinal fortitude to remain a Nic Cage Completist over the years. An Oscar winner for “Leaving Las Vegas,” great in films all over the spectrum — from “Raising Arizona” and “Peggy Sue Got Married” to … Continue reading →

What a delightful little French-flavored English bon bon this is. “Sleeping Car to Trieste” may be a corny, old-fashioned “Orient Express” rail-bound thriller, peppered with intrigues both deadly and quaintly silly. But by the time this sleeper hits the third … Continue reading →

Perhaps you run into the same reservation I do when considering Netflix’s latest version of the Andean survival epic “Society of the Snow,” a new retelling of the harrowing survival story immortalized in the non-fiction book “Alive,” the terrific 1993 … Continue reading →

The hiker’s come to the scenic desert around Joshua Tree to photograph a solar eclipse. But on his way back to his car, he spies a boy cowering in the shade. “I lost my parents,” the kid says. And Mr. … Continue reading →

A strike year following COVID years means that 2024 won’t generate the $9 billion the domestic box office pulled in for 2023. That’s foretold by the month of January, traditionally a slow month for new releases anyway, made more so … Continue reading →

Sometimes the all-star credentials of a vintage film draw you to it more than subject matter or a “classic” reputation. And occasionally, it’s the legend attached to it, the Hollywood lore surrounding it that piques your curiosity. Any film by … Continue reading →

There’s no sex or romance in “A Place of Our Own,” no hormone therapy, surgical consulations or discussion of “transitioning.” This simple slice-of-life/fly on the wall drama is about two transgender friends’ struggle to find a house or apartment they … Continue reading →

“Good Grief” is Dan Levy’s delicate and arms-length drift through the psychology of mourning, with that grief complicated by post mortem secrets that emerge about the deceased. It’s a featherweight attempt at the gutting, deflated feeling of loss, with clever … Continue reading →

“The Book of Clarence” is no mere lampoon of the belief system based on a persecution, blood sacrifice and murder by the state origin story. It’s a retelling, resetting and often amusing examination of “knowledge” vs. “faith,” the nobility of … Continue reading →

“Roadkill” is a leaden, lumbering C-movie about serial killings on the backroads of Florida back in the ’80s. For his second feature, writer, director and co-star Warren Fast (“Finding Grace”) reaches back for a “drive in” era motors-and-murders thriller about … Continue reading →