Author Archives: Roger Moore

Rosamund Pike, Jacob Elordi, Richard E. Grant and Alison Oliver also star in this dreamy drift into a summer of decadence and corruption. Carey Mulligan is listed on IMDb as being in it, but not in this trailer or its … Continue reading →

Is “Choose Love” “inane,” “insipid” or merely an “innocuous” attempt to make the cinematic romantic comedy a viewer’s choice “will they or won’t they” experience? It’s “interactive cinema,” you know. So click on one of the selection of choices that … Continue reading →

Something about the way Denzel Washington‘s Robert McCall lays his cane across his shoulders and drapes both hands over it tells us that he’s sized up a new threat, that he’s recovered from the Sicilian bullet wound that has him … Continue reading →

Didya love “Black Dynamite?” Didya MISS it? Get on that, wouldya? I loved it. And this has “Black Dynamite” blaxploitation Western energy, and we know Mr. White’s gift for deadly deadpan. Michael Jai White wrote, directed and stars in “Outlaw … Continue reading →

Every ten years, like clockwork, we get a new version of “La grande séduction.” And every ten years, I review it and find something charming in this “Northern Exposure” tale of a dying village lying, cheating and manipulating its way … Continue reading →

In the spirit of “It’s animated, let’s dub it with English-speaking voices and see if it’ll sell” comes “Goodbye Monster,” a cross-cultural curiosity from China that loses something in translation. The director and co-writer of “Bobby the Hedgehog,” Huang Jianming, … Continue reading →

This A24 release is a sort of Jesus-adjacent/not quite Pythonesque account of the revolutionary ferment of 1st century Jerusalem. Omar Sy, Alfred Woodard, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and James McAvoy are in this January release.

An Oct 6 release from Lionsgate, et al. Mel Gibson is Mississippi Mel in this one, which is based on a Michael Farris Smith novel. Sort of Stockholm Syndromish involvement between the son and an accused cop killer? Hard to … Continue reading →

I was never much of a fan of B-movie maker Monte Hellman, who had a long if not exactly prolific career — 23 directing jobs between 1959 and the 2010s. “Two-Lane Blacktop” is a solid genre picture, and I’m hard … Continue reading →

Well, thank God that “Squared Love” romance is settled and done with. Again. Those crazy lovebirds, teacher Monika (Adrianna Chlebicka) and high-living influencer Enzo (Mateusz Banasiuk) have had not one but TWO Polish rom-coms to fall hard and tie the … Continue reading →