Author Archives: Roger Moore

Here’s the trailer to the first film to make use of Disney’s insanely-overextended copyright of the character the company founder created nearly a century ago. As horror movies set in amusement parks go, “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” doesn’t seem to offer … Continue reading →

You hate to start the year reviewing a bad C-movie aiming for B-status, but that’s the state of the cinema between Christmas and that first weekend after New Year’s. “Sniper: G.R.I,T.” is the latest in a series of glib, violent … Continue reading →

Cristiana Dell’Anna has the title role in this Italian Catholic immigrant who made opening a humane orphanage in New York her life’s work. Giancarlo Giannini plays Pope Leo XIII, with John Lithgow the New York mayor she had to contend … Continue reading →

Steven Spielberg mentioned in interviews over the years how a Cecil B. DeMille epic from the early 1950s changed his life. The spectacle, the larger-than-life presentation and the special effects of “The Greatest Show on Earth” turned little Steven into … Continue reading →

Almost every Hollywood movie of “the war years” was an embarrasment of riches when it came to European expats decorating the cast. “Casablanca” was practically a make-work project for conflict refugees. British films with a patriotic bent — “The 49th … Continue reading →

For everybody who figures The Hallmark Channel is too “edgy” and The Christian Channel too preachy, there’s UpTV, whose fare one hopes isn’t represented by “Something Brewing,” a bland, lifeless romance parked on Amazon Prime for the curious. Suffice it … Continue reading →

This version of “The Garfield Movie” is an origin story, with a discovery. “Garfield Doesn’t Like Burgers” once he discovers the wonders of lasagna. Chris Pratt voices the cat, with the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Bowen Yang … Continue reading →

The lady priest tells the support group that “Grief is love that has become lost.” But Sara doesn’t want to hear it. Her last conversation with her husband, Daniel, was him telling her — by phone — that “This isn’t … Continue reading →

Less than a month before U.S. B-29s flew over Japan and leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the only two atomic bombs ever used in combat, a bomb was mounted on a tower in the Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico, and … Continue reading →

It’s impossible to overstate the cat-fighting delights of George Cukor’s all-star adaptation of “The Women,” a title that often gets lost in the gilded glory of classic cinema’s greatest year — 1939. Consider the protagonists on offer. Rosalind Russell vs. … Continue reading →