Author Archives: Roger Moore

Julia Roberts and George Clooney wring every last drop of good will and good humor out of their long friendship and screen personas as estranged exes who join forces to stop their daughter from marrying too impulsively and too young … Continue reading →

The great New Orleans trumpeter Wynton Marsalis remembers the times his father Ellis suggested he take another look and listen to the jazz of “Pops,” Louis Armstrong. To Wynton and generations of African Americans who only knew Armstrong through is … Continue reading →

“American Murderer” is a workmanlike “true crime” thriller about the hunt for con-man turned accused killer Jason Derek Brown. Writer-director Matthew Gentile’s feature debut, following a short film he did on the subject, attracted plenty of talent — with Ryan … Continue reading →

March 23, an ex-con installment in the Never Ending Boxing Story.

This Cannes award winner, a seriocomic odyssey from veteran Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, opens in select cities in early December. Looks lovely.

The debut feature of Scottish director Charlotte Wells is a meditation on memory, a woman selectively remembering a vacation with her father from twenty years before, sifting for clues about what she might have missed. “Aftersun” gives us only a … Continue reading →

Veteran German documentarian Heinz Emigolz’s “The Last City” is an interlocking series of conversations with actor/characters taking us from Israel and Serbia to Greece, China and Brazil in a quintet of vignettes that seem to have only the loosest connections. … Continue reading →

Let’s resist the urge to judge a new Japanese religious movement with the label we slap on every faith new enough to invite ridicule — “cult.” Instead, let Happy Science explain itself via a movie it has released, although maybe … Continue reading →

Next time you’re in Orlando, Planet Earth’s Vacationland, drop the name “Billy Flanigan.” Just don’t try to find somebody with anything bad to say about him. That’s an exercise in futility that would eat up your whole visit. “Mr. Disney,” … Continue reading →

Nov. 1, this film from the director of “Cocains e Cowboys” comes to Hulu. The pool boy, the rich and entitled rich religious hustlers, the New York con artist, all here. And Tom Arnold. Remember how he helped expose this?