Author Archives: Roger Moore

A D-Day veteran and “90 year old coffin dodger” leaves his nursing home and great love for a trip to Normandy to pay tribute to fallen comrades. A true story — you might remember this sidebar inspired from when President … Continue reading →

One, two three four…slash-mark to denote “five.” That’s what a B-movie shoot-em-up often invites you to do, just keep track of the body count. Six, seven, eight, nine, another slashmark — “TEN.” “Shrapnel” is a straight-up “They’ve taken my daughter” … Continue reading →

This indie Franco-African thriller about a refugee finding a criminal from her homeland now employed as a Catholic priest rolls out in limited release at the end of August and first of Sept.

And now for something completely unpleasant. “Night Explorers: The Asylum” is about streaming channel extrepreneurs who encounter more than they bargained for when they visit “the most haunted place on Earth.” OK, they’ve probably used that hype line more than … Continue reading →

The stuff I’ll sit through for a little primo surfing footage, an Aussie accent or three and Temuera Morrison going bloody psycho killer on everybody. “Sons of Summer” is a sentimental “surfie” bros tribute trip tale that crashes up against … Continue reading →

This quirky country life close encounter comedy co stars Jane Curtin, Zoë Winters and the delightful Harriet Samson Harris of “Frasier.” Bleecker Street has this Marc Turtletaub comedy slated for Aug.11 release.

Some movies come to you, passing on their insights directly, underlining their message and themes. More challenging films make you come to them. Morissa Maltz’s “The Unknown Country” is a rare example of the latter made even rarer by the … Continue reading →

By the late 1960s, John le Carré was just coming into his own as the  the new Graham Greene, a sophsticated, subtle “thinking person’s spy novelist.” “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” had shown the former MI5/MI6 insider … Continue reading →

Writer-director Adam Sigal (“The Two Dogs,” no, me either) has cooked up a true (ish) story about a Hungarian American parapsychologist who visited the Isle of Man in 1935 to figure out why the locals insisted they were hearing from … Continue reading →

He looks worn and weary from a bout…with something, we don’t know what. The rumor that made the most sense to me was a “stroke” after a heated argument, but there’s little evidence of that in his speech, which would … Continue reading →