Author Archives: Roger Moore

They seem like such a nice couple. He’s strolling around the grounds of their gated subdivision in his robe on a chilly winter’s morning. She’s sleeping in. When she wakes, she wants him to repeat a “lost at sea/remember why … Continue reading →

It’s a menace the single woman thriller with gimmick casting fleshing out the ensemble. Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, G-Easy, Winnie Harlowe, Deadass, Luis Guzman, Sky Ferreira, Jake Weary — a slasher thriller with laughs? Jan. 20.

So Keaton and Richard Gere are a couple, and Sarandon and William H. Macy are a couple, only they’re cheating on each other with each other. If you follow. And one couple’s daughter (Roberts) is stuck with the commitment-phobic son … Continue reading →

There’s something about the world’s first detective novelist that makes writers and filmmakers envision him as a gentleman sleuth. A courtly, erudite romantic with morbid streak and a Virginia drawl, Edgar Allan Poe must have been one of the inspirations … Continue reading →

It isn’t the black and white cinematography that gives away the fact that “Lenny,” Bob Fosse’s film about the life, career and decline of comedian Lenny Bruce, is of a different era. It’s the patience. This 1974 film, based on … Continue reading →

It can sometimes seem that all the “let’s throw some money at” productions that Netflix streamed as feature films over the past year are just one interminable and awful movie. Maybe you figured that out on your own. Me? I … Continue reading →

The best selling point of “Happy FKN Sunshine,” a “let’s start a metal band” dramedy, is that the title makes it sound British, or better yet Irish. But no. It’s Canadian, set and shot in Ontario. They swear up there … Continue reading →

The child actor stars of “Nightbooks” really “sell” the frights in this Goosebumpy tale of terror. There’s quite a bit of screaming and frantic, gasping weeping at their plight and fear that they won’t survive this predicament or that ordeal. … Continue reading →

If you’re a film buff, you should have seen it already. Let’s face it, film going is devolving into spectacles aimed only at comic book fanatics or horror aficionados. Movies about cinema are a high profile gasp at providing an … Continue reading →

Tyler Perry turns his melodramatic eye on the recent past for his latest, a jazz-and-blues in 1940s Georgia tale titled “A Jazzman’s Blues.” It’s about race relations under Jim Crow, when miscegenation was a multi-syllable word even the trashiest rednecks … Continue reading →