Author Archives: Roger Moore

Japan’s aging and shrinking population is the inspiration behind “Plan 75,” the debut feature of writer-director Chie Hayakawa. Expanding her short film of the same title, she imagines a Japan which a government program, “Plan 75,” incentivizes the elderly to … Continue reading →

French action auteur Pierre Morel of the “Taken” movies delivers a solid, tactically-fascinating Middle Eastern combat film with “The Ambush,” a United Arab Emirates -acked account of a firefight that really happened during the Yemeni Civil War. It’s a movie … Continue reading →

Full disclosure here, I had to watch Netflix’s new take on the oft-filmed “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” twice. No, not savor the sex scenes one more time. But because director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s lovely, natural light and “outdoorsy” version of the … Continue reading →

Really Disney? You buy 20th Century formerly-Fox film studio for Marvel’s X-Men, “Avatar” and…remaking Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies on the cheap? How cheap? Look at that shot posted above. THAT cheap. Making the aesthetic choice to … Continue reading →

Norway can always be relied on to deliver a dose of dumb fun, with cool effects, when it comes to their mythic mountain monsters — trolls. The worst thing you can say about the new Roar Uthaug (“The Wave,” “Tomb … Continue reading →

Animation is the proper way for a kid to first experience Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Live theater performances and the “classic” film renditions — 1951 with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, 1984’s exceptional George C. Scott TV movie Scrooge … Continue reading →

It was never going to be a horror film for everyone. And whatever its broader appeal, a teen cannibals in love story co-starring transgression-is-my-brand Timothée Chalamet was not something I particularly wanted to see. But as a “Badlands” style outlaw … Continue reading →

Parenting is not for the faint-hearted or the disengaged, something every generation seems to have to figure out for itself. You don’t “need a license” to do it, the old joke goes, and even that might not help. The new … Continue reading →

Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies….Need I go on? Ok then, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Mads Mikkelson and Antonio Freaking Banderas. A 1960s setting? New York, etc.? James Mangold directs from a Jez Butterworth et al script.