Author Archives: Roger Moore

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 →

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 →