Author Archives: Roger Moore

Rory Kinnear has the title role, that of a bloke who wants to charter a small town bank to “help” his friends and other customers. Lock! Him! Up! the conservatives shout. Phoebe Dynevor, Paul Kaye, Naomi Battrick, Jo Hartley, Angus … Continue reading →

That broken record that hits the turntable almost every time I have to review a thriller is skipping again, this time all the way through “The Engineer.” “PACING,” skip. “PACING,” skip. This inspired by “true events” picture is about the … Continue reading →

Regular readers of movie reviews will recognize the words “beautifully-designed” and “handsomely mounted” as film critic speak for “The blind date we’re setting you up with has…a great personality.” So it is with the lovely-to-look-at, well-cast old school horror tale … Continue reading →

Layers of hurt and pieces of a puzzle peel away over the course of Kôji Fukada’s “Love Life,” a forlorn and downbeat drama with dissonant dramedy touches. It’s intriguing yet so slow and quiet as to test one’s patience, duller … Continue reading →

Gibson joins Collin Woodell, Nhung Kate, Katie McGrath, Jessica Alain and…Ray McKinnon in this continuation “prequel” of Wickworld and the hotel for assassins. For those not following the post-“cancellation” Mel Gibson saga, this sort of violent action setting has been … Continue reading →

A tone poem on rural life, community and Black life in the rural South. A fall feature from our friends at A24.

“The Pod Generation” is an aridly-dry sci-fi satire about childbirth in a more technologically convenient future. It’s a dark comedy that’s more cautionary than amusing, and downright triggering at times. Writer-director Sophia Barthes extrapolates our app-obsessed/mega-corp-controlled present world into that … Continue reading →

Decades of “Twilight Zone” episodes and movies from “Primer”” and “Timecrimes” to “Safety Not Guaranteed” have demonstrated that you don’t need a huge budget to tell a time travel story. The best films of the genre are intellectual exercises, and … Continue reading →

This looks fascinating, a “hack” that hit the weakest link in a banking/Federal Reserve chain. “Billion Dollar Heist” comes out Aug. 15.

Writer-director Roderick MacKay’s “The Furnace” is a solid if somewhat slow Australian variation on the “gold fever leads to gold madness” “Treasure of Sierra Madre” theme. MacKay’s debut feature is about a blood-stained quest to get stolen gold out of … Continue reading →