Author Archives: Roger Moore

Martin Freeman plays the Tennessee high school teacher and mentor who is challenged by a talented student who decides to tease, test and maybe even ruin him.

A bracing, trippy thriller that lets technique overwhelm a simple story, “NAGA” is like no Saudi film we’ve ever seen before. Writer-director Meshal Al Jaser’s tale of young female (limited) rebellion and a quest to escape a posh party in … Continue reading →

A divided country with a “Florida Alliance” and “Western” forces of Texas and California at war with the central government? Sounds far-fetched but cautionary and not exactly the kind of “escape” people will be looking for next April, in an … Continue reading →

Filmgoers will have two sides of Mulroney available this Christmas. He’s in that Australian-set romance “Anyone But You,” starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell and Alexandra Shipp. That was supposed to come out in January, but Sony is smuggling it into … Continue reading →

One hair-raising moment in the Korean thriller “The Ghost Station,” a tale of people having subway”accidents” that look like nothing of the sort, involves cell phone tech. Someone points their cell camera down a tunnel. The focus framing outline pops … Continue reading →

This looks indie and non traditional, as far as Westerns go. We are… intrigued. Jan. 12.

Hand it to Warner Bros. for their approach to their favorite piece of Roald Dahl intellectual property. They didn’t just remake “Charlie” or “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” They took a stab at giving us a back story about … Continue reading →

Every trailer gets more and more of the scale of this epic across. This one offers up more of the Chalamet/Zendaya love story (Watch your back, Tom Holland). And “More COWbell.” Just saw Chalamet’s “Wonka,” and seriously — if he … Continue reading →

It was all supposed to be “utopian.” High-rise apartment towers, surrounded by trees — and other apartment towers — would provide affordable housing, convenience, population density that makes mass transit and other service deliveries “efficient” and could create instant “community.” … Continue reading →

Hayao Miyazaki, the great Japanese animator whose name is synonymous with the anime art form, told the world he was retiring with the 2013 film “The Wind Rises.” That’s a fascinating, mostly historical World War II story about the idealistic … Continue reading →