Author Archives: Roger Moore

For a “lost” film and legendary “problem” production, “The Man on the Eiffel Tower” (1949) certainly offers up a lot of delights for a cinephile. If you’re looking for the film that convinced the great Charles Laughton that he should … Continue reading →

“Gran Turismo” is a beautiful looking film. Jacques Jouffret photographed it like the slickest car commercial you’ve ever seen, and Austyn Daines and Colby Parker Jr. edited us right into and inside the race cars and the races recreated here. … Continue reading →

Got my notebook, two pens — real movie critics take notes and an Eagle Scout is always”prepared” — and my seat set to rumble and shake at my favorite local Regal Cinema, aka “the office.” This could be fun, and … Continue reading →

“Klondike” is a stark, immersive drama about being trapped on the front lines of a new war when all hell breaks loose. The “new war” was the last Russian-backed assault on Ukraine, the so-called “separatists” uprising in Donetsk Oblast, Russian-instigated … Continue reading →

“Marry My Dead Body” is a daft and somewhat slow-footed Taiwanse action comedy about a homophobic cop who learns tolerance by marrying a ghost, who then helps him Crack the Big Case. It’s a tad obvious, a bit dated, as … Continue reading →

A college-bound teen is falsely accused, and her future unravels when it does. “Marisol” is undocumented. Sept. 1.

With those darting eyes, sinister glare and a voice that could cut leather, Patrick McGoohan was an actor born to play Iago. But the only time the American-born, British-and-Irish-raised star of “Danger Man” (“Secret Agent Man” in the States), “The … Continue reading →

Another month, another bloated but watchable big bang of a Netflix action movie. Gal Gadot stars in “Heart of Stone,” a sort of “Kingsmen” riff on all-knowing/all-powerful off-the-books secret agents and their secret agency menaced by even more secretive evil … Continue reading →

What late summer crumpet of cute is this? “Bank of Dave” is an adorably plucky feel-good story from Across the Pond, a “true-ish” tale of hidebound, class-divided Britain and small town neighborliness and compassion confronting a literal “Old Boy’s Club” … Continue reading →

Comedy is a quick, and that goes for romantic comedies as well. “Match Me if You Can” is an indie rom-com that just isn’t — quick or romantic. There are funny lines and a cute moment, here and there. And … Continue reading →