Author Archives: Roger Moore

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.

The action bonafides are pretty solid for “The Terminal List,” a paranoid Big Conspiracy thriller now on Amazon. It’s based on a novel by Jack Carr, series creator David DiGilio scripted TV’s “Traveler,” Antoine “Training Day” Fuqua directed the pilot … Continue reading →

“The Dark and the Wicked” is a quietly gloomy thriller that wraps a number of horror tropes up in a tidy, compact package. Writer-director Bryan Bertino (“The Strangers”) keeps his effects simple, his shocks few and his tone funereal in … Continue reading →

Joseph “Joe” Turkel of Brooklyn, New York, made well over 100 appearances on film and TV, more if you add in video games. He died last week at the ripe old age of 94, a character actor who appeared in … Continue reading →

As World War II ground to its brutal conclusion, Germans and their occupied country collaborators hastily burned, blew up and buried as much of the evidence of “The Final Solution,” their mass internment and murder of European Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, … Continue reading →

Steve Carell gave away the game about “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” during his interview with Seth Meyers the other night. It’s not just a movie for kids and their parents, but “grandparents” might give some thought to volunteering to … Continue reading →

Screenwriter Yuri Baranovsky and director Mark Meir don’t go to any trouble at all in hiding their appreciation for, homage to and theft from Jordan Peele’s blockbuster, “Get Out.” So it’d be remiss of me to not talk about the … Continue reading →

The 16th Century was littered with naval battles that shaped the future. Lepanto stopped the Muslim Ottomans from overrunning the Mediterranean and then Europe, England saved itself from the Spanish Armada and Korea fended off, if only for a while, … Continue reading →

All I ever want out of a movie is a short trip to someplace I’ve never been, or never really “seen,” to get a look inside lives I’ve never lived. The thrills of action films, frights of horror and delights … Continue reading →

As an ex-radio guy, I’m a sucker for most anything set in that milieu — be it a TV show, play or movie. When your thriller’s titled “Final Caller,” sure I’ll take a look. It could be the next “Talk … Continue reading →