Author Archives: Roger Moore

You’re never happy when a great booster of the cinema, a genuine film enthusiast, hangs it up. But if we’re to take Quentin Tarantino at his word, the just-turned-60 Oscar-winning director of “Pulp Fiction,” “Jackie Brown” and “Once Upon a … Continue reading →

On screen hit men and women have had a code — “rules” — going back at least as far John Woo’s “The Killer,” which folded into the early films of Luc Besson (“Nikita,” “Leon: The Professional). Besson added the idea … Continue reading →

April 21, the Florida Film Festival will play host to An Evening with John Cusack, a screening of his Cameron Crowe teen romance classic “Say Anything,” followed by a Q & A moderated by yours truly. If you live in … Continue reading →

Hell, who can keep these straight? “Final trailer,” I mean. Pratt and Saldana and Cooper and Dave and Vin Groot and this week’s villain? OK. May 5. Hard to top this one, tho. It’s got period-appropriate fanboy service pop in … Continue reading →

Writer-director David Helling introduces and adds a filmed postscript to his first feature film, “His Only Son,” something not wholly unheard of in mainstream cinema, but not that unusual in faith-based films. He talks down the film’s budget and talks … Continue reading →

“On the Fringe” might be the most stressful film on Netflix right now. A great cast makes this Spanish drama of desperation and quiet heartbreak not so much hard to watch as unhealthy to internalize. These are portraits of interconnected … Continue reading →

Is “Murder Mystery 2” worse than 2019’s “Murder Mystery?” Tough call. Mainly because I don’t remember anything about the original save for the reunited of Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, that “Just Go With It” version of Tracy and Hepburn, … Continue reading →

Whoa, did NOT see that coming. I mean, it only took 75 minutes for something, ANYthing to happen in this 93 minute picture. And when it did, boy oh boy. Just kidding. That was a letdown, too. “Stalker” is a … Continue reading →

This May 16 release from Magnolia adds another credit to Schrader’s starling third act “comeback” of a career. Sigourney Weaver also stars. We also hear there’s an anti-vaxxer in the supporting cast. Just judging from that person’s tweets.

Boris Becker — Wimbledon Champion at 17, retired tennis idol at 29, broke and tossed in a British prison at 54. That’s the story the world’s greatest investigative documentarian, Alex Gibney, sets out to tell and the subject he tries … Continue reading →