Author Archives: Roger Moore

Gemma Chan, Oscar winner Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe and Veronica Ngo star in this Sept. 29 release, which has a much more international feel than the “Terminator” franchise ever did. Gareth Edwards, who did the best of the post-original trilogy … Continue reading →

Greene plans the daughter who gets in trouble, Perlman and Jackie Earle Haley are bad guys embodying that trouble, Cage plays a dad with “periocular skills,” and Ernie Hudson’s the guy who knows Dad’s past. Yes, this looks a LOT … Continue reading →

Her unseen interviewer asks questions that bring Lokita to tears. It’s not that what the Belgian immigration counselor asks the teenaged girl from Benin about is painful or troubling. Lokita (Joely Mbundu) is lying, and keeping her story straight — … Continue reading →

I drive a lot. A LOT. I’m totally down with the idea of a road picture capturing the spiritual disconnect between where you left and where you’re going, a journey that changes you as you’re making it. This looks lovely. … Continue reading →

One can think one has a handle on all every cheese-making nook and cranny of Europe, and then something like “Operation Napoleon” rolls in and makes you realize “Iceland can be cheesy, too!” “Operation Napoleon” a lumbering B-movie about a … Continue reading →

This looks real-world gritty, a side of French life not often captured on film. August 11, we sample what it’s like to live “Between Two Worlds.”

There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of “true events” that this B-movie was “inspired” by. An integrated Marine unit fighting the Japanese in 1942? The heck you say? August 11.

The second film Neflix has made out of Josh Malerman’s dystopian thriller novel “Bird Box” has two veterans of the viral/zombie thriller genre, the Spanish Pastor brothers (“Carriers”), behind the camera, and not the Emmy winning Danish director Susanne Bier, … Continue reading →

There’s always movie money to be made by pandering to a particular audience, be it comic book and sci-fi fanboys and fangirls, foodies, this under-represented race or that disrespected cult. Back when it was called 20th Century Fox, somebody thought … Continue reading →

“War Pony” is a compelling, wholly-lived-in drama that tracks the dead-end lives of two aimless young males of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and Nebraska. We follow immature-even-for-19 Bill and tweenage Matho as they navigate their opportunity-deprived … Continue reading →