Author Archives: Roger Moore

Sounds like Zach, but does this guy look like Mr. Galifianakis? Quite the transformation for the “Between Two Ferns/Hangover/Baskets” drawling, sarcastic lump. Ms. Banks is spot on as one of the many women screwed over and cheated by the hustling, … Continue reading →

“The Childe” is a flip and darkly amusing comic thriller from Korea, a tale of an impoverished Filipino boxer who laments the fact that he’s never been able to find his Korean father. Until he does find him. It’s violent, … Continue reading →

The magical manga turned anime spectacle “Black Clover” becomes a feature film in “Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King,” an offshoot of the popular TV series that struggles through a sea of characters, contrived factions and sword and sorcery … Continue reading →

Cinephiles congregate around the films of Stanley Kubrick the way history buffs are drawn to Alexander, Hitler and Napoleon. They were all-powerful control freaks who set out to remake the world in an image they saw in their own minds, … Continue reading →

Sofia Coppola hasn’t had a winner in some time. “On the Rocks” was Ok…ish. A pale comparison to “Lost in Translation.” But in telling Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s version of this “fairy tale” romance of the ’60s, and doing it for … Continue reading →

“Dark Forces (Fuego Negro)” is a bloody-minded, sex-scene-stuffed Mexican film noir that that staggers along like a George A. Romero zombie. That’s rich, because “zombies” aren’t the creatures of mythic horror this Bernardo Arellano thriller has in mind. Atmospheric, with … Continue reading →

One does not know what took so long for drag performer/singer, writer and activist Taylor’s Mac‘s Olympian undertaking, “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” to make it to TV and the masses. An epic 246 song show, toured as … Continue reading →

In a summer marked by “outrageous” women-driven comedies of the “Oh no they DIDN’T” variety, Jennifer Lawrence‘s “No Hard Feelings” stands out as the most outrageous of them all. If your jaw doesn’t drop at the sight of a two-time … Continue reading →

Every baseball fan knows about the Negro Leagues, that parallel baseball universe that competed and thrived in the decades before “baseball apartheid” ended and America’s Pastime brought Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby and others into the Major Leagues. Ken Burns had … Continue reading →

Shudder has this “No one knows we’re out here” thriller, set in Colombia. July 14.