Author Archives: Roger Moore

Science fiction icon H.G Wells’ oft-filmed 1897 novel gets a fresh, gloomy Victorian Gothic adaptation in “Fear the Invisible Man,” a film that is faithful to the style, themes and spirit of the novel without literally being the exact same … Continue reading →

Actress turned director Eva Longoria’s “Flamin’ Hot” is a lightly charming love letter to Mexican-American pluck, resolve and grace in the face of every obstacle that one’s adoptive country throws in your path. Longoria and screenwriters Lewis Colick and Linda … Continue reading →

“The Tank” is a polished period piece thriller set in the 1970s Pacific Northwest, but filmed in New Zealand, with a mostly-Kiwi cast-and-crew. Because nothing looks like the undeveloped past of Washington and Oregon’s coasts like the rocky shores of … Continue reading →

Sly, Statham and Dolph are back, with a few new “recruits” joining the ranks of a movie I can’t recall anyone asking for. But sure, another “Expendables?” I was under the impression the movie biz had written off Fitty. He’s … Continue reading →

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 →