Author Archives: Roger Moore

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 →

A one night-only horror event? “Mad Heidi” stars Alice Lucy, Max Rüdlinger, David Schfield and Casper van Dien. Swiss-timed to play at a theater near you on June 21. Don’t forget the chocolate!

This June 30 Dreamworks animated coming-of-age action comedy is anti-mermaid, and arrives after “The Little Mermaid,” and not Pixar and shows up after “Elemental.” Seems like a bit of a comical reach, but you know kids. Maybe they’ll connect with … Continue reading →

You take one look at these kids, and your first thought might be “Does the orphanage have anybody else we could adopt?” They’re albino-pale, white-haired blondes with eager-to-please smiles. But golly, who wouldn’t say, “Childrens of the Damned” the moment … Continue reading →

You think you’ve got a handle on “The Golden Age of Screwball Comedy,” after finishing your survey of the films of Lubitsch and Sturges, Capra and Wilder and the occasional fun outing by Hanks, Fleming, La Cava and Cukor. And … Continue reading →

It was raining and she was on her motorcycle. So she stopped and ducked into a Parisian boite for a drink to wait it out. “L’etoile d’Or,” it was called. She noticed the birthday party, the candles-covered cake at the … Continue reading →

Well, perhaps the production team behind Brazil’s Around the World with Netflix offering “Rich in Love” took criticism of their “series of limp mistaken identity mixups” rom-com to heart. They got to make a sequel with the same beautiful, rich-but-earnestly-trying-to-contribute … Continue reading →