Author Archives: Roger Moore

This is the Fantastic Fest teaser for this RLJE/Shudder release, date TBD.

If Robert “Sin City” Rodriguez remade the expressionistic classics “M” or “The Third Man,” chances are it’d look a lot like “Hinterland,” an Austrian thriller that recreates post World War I Vienna digitally on green screen soundstages. Director and co-writer … Continue reading →

The school’s halls are decorated with inspirational quotes from Socrates, Aristotle and Elvis. And in class, boys of 8, 9 and 10 raise their hands to be today’s “concept mapper” or be in today’s “Socratic Circle.” “Question of the day,” … Continue reading →

In theaters Oct. 14, on demand a few days later. A zombie movie about digging up a few friends.

Wild wacky stuff, twisted and nonsensical, from the mail order baby to the street corner baby mama. Nov. 8.

Novelty alone is worth something at the movies. And there’s plenty about “Give Me Five” that makes it a cinematic unicorn. Comedies from China are rarely imported. A comedy with a whiff of “Back to the Future” about it, with … Continue reading →

The stunning recreations in “Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche” put the viewer as close to an actual avalanche as anybody’d ever want to get. A mountain of snow, preceded by a hurricane-force wind-driven shock wave, chases a snowmobile down … Continue reading →

A brilliant child tries to keep herself fed and her paralyzed father alive in the mesmerizing science fiction drama “Vesper.” It’s about biological collapse and biological rebirth on an Earth even more starkly-divided into “haves” and “haven’t a prayers.” That’s … Continue reading →

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is more Mexican than “Roma,” more surreal than “Birdman,” and hits Netflix Dec. 16. Wowza.

A gay couple and their daughter face the threat represented by a “Knock at the Cabin” door and warnings of the apocalypse. When it’s Dave Bautista doing the talking, you have to listen. No choice. Rupert Grint? Come on.