Author Archives: Roger Moore

“Squared Love” is a vapid little “Around the World with Netflix” bauble from Poland, a romance about a teacher whose side hustle is modeling. By day, Monika is a doting Polish elementary school teacher, an innovator beloved by her kids … Continue reading →

Oscar winner William Hurt has died, four years after letting us know that he’d been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He was 71. His stand-out performances were legion — “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Broadcast News,” “A History of Violence,” … Continue reading →

“Win a Trip to Browntown!” is a “family” comedy about anal sex, an almost-laugh-free lurch along the not-so-fine-line between “insipid” and “insufferable.” Broadly, dully acted, with a script that sounds like a beer-soaked brainstorming session from your 25th college reunion … Continue reading →

I missed “Outlaw King” when Netflix dropped it in 2018, because I occasionally drop Netflix when I find myself running out of content to watch/review and have seen every Indonesian romance, Turkish those story and Brazilian comedy that might interest … Continue reading →

Fen was all set to live out her “coming of age” in Los Angeles, a Taiwanese transplant who still speaks Mandarin when ordered to, but who has grown up with American English and American attitudes. But she quickly figures out … Continue reading →

For his latest feat, Mr. Canadian Trade-Balancer Ryan Reynolds travels through time to trade barbs with his 12-year-old self, further extends the warranty for action comedy hack Shawn “Night at the Museum” Levy and makes Mark Ruffalo funny. Pulling those … Continue reading →

Have a smirk over the irony of naming an exploitive sex, webcams and coeds killer tale “Exploited.” It’s not like it’s going to score any other points for cleverness. A feebly-plotted, meekly-acted raw dog softcore porn pic masquerading as a … Continue reading →

“Autumn Girl” is the “Mrs. Maisel stumbles into ‘All About Eve’” Polish musical biography you didn’t know you needed until it showed up in your Netflix queue. A few songs, a few laughs, a little sex, a lot of sexism … Continue reading →

In film buff slang, “Felliniesque” conveys a a lot of cinematic shorthand in just a single word. It can mean a self-conscious artist self-conscious about her or his self-consciousness. The word is almost synonymous with existential angst and cultural ennui. … Continue reading →