Author Archives: Roger Moore

It’s no shock that screenwriters who gave us “Hoosiers,” “Rudy” and “Men of Honor” could get a few tears out of a tale an aspiring baseball player struggling to overcome the degenerative spinal disorder he was born with and make … Continue reading →

Someboy is stalking Nancy, messing with her Smart House, phone, work and home computers, her electric and electronically-wired-in car. Somebody murdered her fiance the night before their wedding. Somebody is sabotaging her at work, setting traps in her personal life … Continue reading →

Whatever the highs and lows of his earlier and later career, the years 1962-64 stand out as the most ambitious of legendary screen comic Peter Sellers. He made a string of films, just as he was blowing up as a … Continue reading →

“Don’t Look Away” is a textbook film for anybody hoping to learn how to make a scary, fun and attention-worthy thriller with next-to-no-money. Need something to “stalk” victims, a variation on The Many Faces of Chucky that’s fresh and a … Continue reading →

An opera he can’t finish because he’s “blocked,” gorgeous arm candy/shrink Anne Hathaway isn’t…helping. Marisa Tomei is a sexy…tug boat captain? Laughing already? Sept. 29, two Oscar winners and the estimable Mr. D. deliver the goods.

In the name of all that’s holy and sane, don’t try watching “10 Days of a Bad Man” without first watching “10 Days of a Good Man.” I’ve seen the earlier film, part of a planned trilogy of adaptations of … Continue reading →

This does look a tad “killer doll” creepy, I must say. Sept. 1.

That weary thriller trope “It was just a dream” gets utterly beaten to death in the moody, obscure and somewhat convoluted horror tale “Deliver Us.” It’s a graphically violent a story set in Russia where a nun, claiming Catholic mythology’s … Continue reading →

“My dad spends every day looking at climate change,” Regina Thompson says of her father, the paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson, in the new documentary “Canary.” Her dad drills ice-core samples on the world’s glaciers, archiving a record of climate history going … Continue reading →

That oft-filmed and televised mythic Chinese folk hero “The Monkey King” earns a slick, slapshticky animated treatment for Netflix in his latest incarnation. He’s a classic flawed “hero,” a manic brawler and antic egomaniac, on a quest to join the … Continue reading →