Author Archives: Roger Moore

“The Year Between” is an amusing, infuriating and sometimes touching dance around mental illness. It’s a dry, droll dramedy that dares to show the narcissism that comes with a diagnosis that gives a college coed license to suck all of … Continue reading →

The voice that giggles off the page in her new memoir is unmistakably Geena Davis — funny, frank, and self-effacing, a tall woman and towering talent with a lifelong girlish streak. She is Thelma without the hellion’s drawl, Dottie Hinson, … Continue reading →

There’s something vaguely enervating about the Spanish romance “Love at First Kiss.” It never was a romantic comedy, despite having a situation or two and a character or two ripe for it. And the film rarely crosses the line into … Continue reading →

Suspenseful but contrived, over-the-top and far from the most “logical” thriller, file “Unseen” under “sloppy movie but a good time.” It’s a sight-impaired person imperiled thriller, borrowing its can’t-see, a stranger on a cell phone can help plot from “See … Continue reading →

Here’s a Polish romance whose title is a promise about what it provides. “Tonight You’re Sleeping With Me” is an invitation to a nap. A corny melodrama with the classic “neglected” wife, “self-absorbed” husband and irresistible “old flame,” the screenwriters … Continue reading →

Rosario and Lakeith and Owen and DeVito and Jamie Lee and Tiffany and Leto and on it goes — ghosts and ghost busting? And all on July 28.

Yeah, I’ve got a couple of movies that just came in to review. “Urgent” the last minute publicists say. “Manana,” I say. Why? #ItHappensEverySpring. A spring training break at the Trop in the Banana Republic of Florida. And no movie … Continue reading →

Unfortunately titled, not quite as polished, shot, edited and “expert” driven as you might hope, “American Bolshevik” begins with a wealthy Newport, Rhode Island philanthropist recounting stories of dogs she’s lost to coyotes. It features more disturbing still photographs and … Continue reading →

I can’t speak for what they’re like today, but in less politically-correct times, university writer’s conferences were a literary spectacle that unleashed famous novelists, poets and non-fiction authors and their fans and groupies on assorted august academic institutions and their … Continue reading →

Big, brassy popular pop band takes an Iron Curtain countries tour for the State Dept. and the wheels come off their 1970s career. This seems paranoid and perhaps delusional, but true, false or exaggerated, it could be fascinating. March. 24.