Author Archives: Roger Moore

This is what happens when you let a guy doze off watching a “Green Acres” marathon. Jay O. Sanders might be the most famous face in “The Road to Galena.” Ben Winchell, Will Brittain and Aimee Teagarden are the leads. … Continue reading →

Listen to the way Spain’s matinee idol hits his lines, the relish he brings to saying his name “Poooos in Boots.” Damn he’s funny in this part. Same with Salma Hayek, their latest greatest pairing? “The Last Wish” is “coming … Continue reading →

The title is “Dreaming Walls,” so don’t dive into this documentary about New York’s famous — and infamous — Hotel Chelsea expecting a literal history lesson. Twelve stories of brick that opened on 23rd St. in 1884, it hosted Oscar … Continue reading →

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Interview enough actors or read enough actors’ autobiographies and you’ll run across what has to be their most common pet peeve. It’s a stage direction that everybody who steps onto a set and into the frame seems to hate. “OK, … Continue reading →

A shy young podcaster immerses herself in her local indie music scene as a way of finding herself and getting noticed in “Poser,” a mesmerizing immersion in music, a “scene” and the obsessions of a member of the “Hey everyone, … Continue reading →

This movie, set during the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbass, seems to explain why Russian officers have limited shelf lives while on their “special operation, invading, murdering and raping their way across Ukraine. July 1, from Well Go … Continue reading →

“Brian and Charles” is a “bloke builds a robot” comedy that’s so cute you want to pinch its inanimate cheeks until they’re red. A mockumentary that pays homage to British tinkering, Welsh eccentrics and the lesson Dad always taught you … Continue reading →

Well here’s a pleasant surprise. “Gatlopp” might be a supernatural board game comedy plainly inspired by “Jumanji,” with the players trapped “in” this supernatural game until it finishes and they face up to their “issues.” But the script has flashes … Continue reading →

One of the definitions of a “classic” film is one that should never, ever be remade. Forget what Coppola said about movies being like operas, with new generations of artists taking their shot at interpreting classic texts. He’d be the … Continue reading →