Author Archives: Roger Moore

Tricks and traps and poison and old friends and high stakes. This one features RZA and Liam Hemsworth in support and hits theaters Nov. 16, streaming shortly thereafter. My review of “Poker Face” is linked here.

The simple pleasure of seeing Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor paired-up as brothers by different mothers does the heavy lifting of “Raymond & Ray,” a downbeat dramedy about their dead father’s last wish. It starts out as an estranged-sibling melodrama, … Continue reading →

The first four or five times one hears a snippet of the story of how 1920s and ’30s singing, dancing and acting sensation Josephine Baker was a French spy of great repute during World War II, the only rational reaction … Continue reading →

The climbing footage is striking and the Alpine settings breathtaking in “Summit Fever,” a mountaineering thriller that also boasts some of the most stark and startling deaths the genre has ever seen. Sure, there are formulaic touches and in its … Continue reading →

“Shady Grove” is another “city folks trapped in a cabin in the woods” tale, this one with a pregnant couple partying with their best friend, when a demonic cult interferes. You know how demonic cults are about pregnant women. It’s … Continue reading →

One reason I avoid any Twitter, Facebook etc. “Name one movie you’ve watched more than five times” meme in its many forms is simple mathematics. There are scores upon scores of movies I’ll stop to watch a bit of while … Continue reading →

There is no “concrete” evidence that what happened in January of 1996 in the city of Varginha, Brazil was caused by an alien spacecraft. Well, none that’s presented in director James Fox‘s latest UFO documentary, “Moment of Contact.” There are … Continue reading →

They’re very old men, now — all in their ’90s — and very few in number. The world war killed almost one in two airmen from their ranks, and the 75 or so intervening years have taken almost all those … Continue reading →

Auguste Rodin was the subject of a biopic that came out in 2017, which no one saw, and a character in many films about French art of the late 19th and early 20th century, the various accounts of the life … Continue reading →

What a sad and sappy seize-the-day satire “The Loneliest Boy in the World” turns out to be. A candy-colored zombie comedy set in the bubble-gummy ’80s, it’s about a guy who grew up so sheltered he can’t connect to the … Continue reading →