Author Archives: Roger Moore

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.

You get a ways into “John Waite: The Hard Way,” and the inescapable feeling sweeps over you that this is a make-work project for a not-retired-yet pop star going a little stir crazy during COVID lockdown. As a film, it’s … Continue reading →

There is no reason — none — why the rest of Hollywood should cede the Teen Rom Com genre to the hormonal hits factory at Netflix. So why not a teen rom-com built around “I see dead people?” And why … Continue reading →

Might be an overreach, but considering the state of the field this year, maybe not.

“The Whale” is not a great, artful or innovative film, and it goes to some pains to never let us forget that. It’s overtly theatrical, never remotely shedding its stage-play origins. It’s a one-set show, with just five characters with … Continue reading →

Inspired by a true story, because in the 80s, even bears got into the nose candy.

In “Corsage,” the unhappy Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary impulsively grasps at all sorts of privileged distractions in 1877 Vienna and environs, a supposedly all-powerful woman hemmed in by her circumstances and position. She horseback rides, diets and flips-out quietly over … Continue reading →

We’d made up our minds about Anne Heche long before her sad death in an accident last August. Controversy dogged her in life, and mental health issues — and the presence of cocaine in her system — were prominent in … Continue reading →

Writer-director Rian Johnson returns to the scene of the triumph with “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” and finds the going a bit slower, the supporting cast less colorful, less venomous and less star-studded and the mystery quite a bit … Continue reading →