Author Archives: Roger Moore

Crowd-funded and Swiss-made, “Mad Heidi” is a straight-up old school “grindhouse” splatter film, a blood-in-the-lens, naked babes in the prison shower frolic through Swiss stereotypes and Swiss cheese Nazis. And if it was as good as its fundraising pitch and … Continue reading →

First off, know this about “Passport,” a Nigerian “comedy” about a stolen passport and the neighborhood hustlers who must be cajoled into giving it back. Not all Nigerian films are this bad. If like me you like to travel Around … Continue reading →

Ezra Miller turns out to be every bit as on-the-spectrum manic, antsy, and impulsive as you’d expect in a stand-alone film about “The Flash.” He gives us a comic book character with issues and an agenda, two distinct and noticably … Continue reading →

Well who knew what the summer 2023 needed was a sweet, fluffy-with-some-complications musical romance set to the tunes of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, aka The Indigo Girls? That’s “Glitter & Doom,” an indie gem making the rounds of a … Continue reading →

A child of “the projects,” she has grown up immersed in tragedy. Drugs, pan-generational poverty and guns saw to that. “I heard my Mom’s heart stop beating when I was eight,” Vicaria narrates. “Death is the disease that broke my … Continue reading →

One cannot help but marvel (cough cough) when pondering how far popular culture has come and how much more visually sophisticated the “Transformers” franchise has grown over the decades. Generations have literally never outgrown this. Toys that first inspired a … Continue reading →

Every night this week, it seems, something else is previewing that’s expected to dominate at least its opening weekend.

“Operation Mayfair” is an Indian serial killer thriller set in London, a film meant, no doubt, for domestic consumption on the Subcontinent and never really intended for prying, judging, non-Hindi-speaking eyes and ears. It’s dreadful by most any measure — … Continue reading →

Pasquale Marrazzo’s “The Neighbor,” titled “Hotel Milano” in Italy, is a melodramatically tragic gay romance about two lovers kept apart after one is beaten into a coma by gay bashing skinheads. The comatose Luca (Jacopo Costantini) has no idea his … Continue reading →

The most daring thing about “Missed Connections,” a chaste social media romance from the Philippines, is the conclusion it comes to. Maybe social media isn’t the cure for dating ills and loneliness that it’s made out to be. No, it’s … Continue reading →