Author Archives: Roger Moore

Very bad and interminably long, “Storage Locker” brings together a perfect storm of terrible script, inept acting and cheese-puff (as opposed to the more expensive “cheese ball”) effects. It’s about a nerdy comic book collector (Avery Mayo) who gets mixed … Continue reading →

This Silver Bear winner from the Berlin Film Fest takes us back to 1960s Indonesia for a sultry tale of infidelity and the secrets women keep from each other and their men. A lot more Indonesian cinema is making its … Continue reading →

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 →