Author Archives: Roger Moore

Ever since the first trailer to Taika’s latest take on Thor I cannot get this damned tune out of my head, one of three GNR tunes in the tale. A fourth Guns N’Roses tune turns up in the open to … Continue reading →

The Moray eel is a scary-looking sea creature that’s only really dangerous when it’s cornered. But hiding in the cracks and crevices of the deep, hunted as a delicacy, it’s pretty much “cornered” by default. That makes it an apt … Continue reading →

The late mid-80s were the heyday of the “trouble on the farm” drama, movies that warned us of the perils of Big Ag and small town bank takeovers, just before the Monsanto menace became obvious, just after farmers voted themselves … Continue reading →

A pandemic lockdown romance? July 22.

Grim stakes and goofiness, gods-bashing and GNR — that’s the latest Taika Waititi take on “the Space Viking,” “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Sure, every Marvel movie panders, cluttered with cross-over characters, self-aware jokes, Easter eggs and cameos. As someone who … Continue reading →

A whodunit with a why he dunit rationale and a big con. Trickery in the “F for Fake” tradition? This looks great.

I excepted more of a “Stranger Things” bounce for Winona Ryder. But she’s working, and this creeper in a cabin in the woods is in the can and on the release slate — July 15. Dermot Mulroney is also in … Continue reading →

“Hyde Park” is a romantic dramedy with a court case as its backdrop set among affluent African Americans and African immigrants in the Chicago neighborhood that bears the same name as the more famous “Park” in London. Pitched as an … Continue reading →

One of the better sequences in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is recreating that sacred piece of Elvis lore, “Singer Presents…Elvis,” the Xmas season TV show labeled “The ’68 Comeback Special.” Luhrmann does spectacle like few filmmakers working today. But you might … Continue reading →

ONLY at Universal Studios, Orlando! Ok, that’s getting ahead of ourselves. Soon, tho. Meanwhile, Universal does a little end zone dance for its two movies in cinemas at the moment.