Author Archives: Roger Moore

That warhorse genre “the police procedural” earns a fresh look with the French drama “The Night of the 12th,” an uncommonly sensitive inside-view of a grim case and its toll on the friends and family of the victim and the … Continue reading →

Jason Statham told me a few times in interviews over the years that he used to chose roles based on who the fight choreographer was. Whatever the quality of the film, if the fights made him look cool, that was … Continue reading →

Filmmakers want to get their foot in the door to a career, and actors? They’ve got to book work to eat, right? That explains a lot of dismally dull and just “off” B, C and D-grade thrillers, especially “The Lurking … Continue reading →

“Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie,” also titled “Ladybug & Cat Noir: Awakening,” is an animated film film kids that falls on the wrong side of the “catering to/pandering to” line, in terms of children’s entertainment. That should be … Continue reading →

“Hidden Strike” is a bad movie that’s easy to endorse. A buddy comedy co-starring the master of the genre, Jackie Chan, here paired with that jock joker John Cena, it’s action for those who like their cheese paired with some … Continue reading →

File “Natty Knocks” under that broad horror film rubric “I’ve seen worse.” It’s basically a screenwriting exercise, “Write another ‘Halloween’ without inviting a copyright infringement claim.” That makes for an unsurprising trek through suburbia in a Town With a Dark … Continue reading →

Many of us dream of making that “escape to the country,” finding a pastoral piece of rural wherever to get away from it all, get back to the land and experience a little peace. But what did Sartre warn us? … Continue reading →

Dublin’s North Circular Road isn’t anything the casual tourist might pick up on, even upon glancing at a map when visiting the city. It’s not a North American idea of what such a name might imply — an interstate loop … Continue reading →

The look is as lurid as black and white cinematography ever got, New York after dark “Photographed,” the title tells us, in a novel way of giving credit, by the great “James Wong Howe.” The music is jazz at its … Continue reading →

Writer-director Greg Pritikin’s “The Mistress” is a slick and servicable if somewhat unsurprising thriller about traumas newlyweds unearth and unleash when they move into a gorgeous old Queen Anne house in LA’s Angelino Heights corner of Echo Park. Pritikin apparently … Continue reading →