Author Archives: Roger Moore

A fourteen year-old German girl experiences her first crush and her sexual awakening in “Cocoon.” But to shy, observant Nora’s surprise, that crush and first love is an older teen girl. Writer-director Leonie Krippendorff — who created the lesbian romance … Continue reading →

“Don” is one of those Bollywood musicals that reminds us that too much Indian cinema puts the “in” in “inane.” A self-congratulatory story of a writer-director — Cibi Chakravarthi — bullied into attending engineering school instead of “art school” (film … Continue reading →

Americans are conditioned to wait for that moment when an onscreen brawl crosses over into “to the death” territory. Some gangster or cop will pull out a firearm. You’ll have a long wait for that in “Paid in Blood,” a … Continue reading →

This will help struggling multiplexes in the cinema’s late summer graveyard weeks, so it’s not all bad. But the cynicism of Sony releasing a longer cut of this just-left-theaters release so soon underscores what some movies — the comic book … Continue reading →

Thomas Haden Church most often finds his laughs via characters with a laid back, deadpan view of the world, characters that drive the highly strung folks around him nuts. And there’s comedy gold in the laid back guy finally losing … Continue reading →

Well, he’s no Jason Momoa. DJ should try a few more bad guys on for size, not that we expect “Black Adam” (Oct.) to be all “dark side.”

This sequel to “The Witch: Subversion,” about a lab, a massacre, a real mess, opens Friday. Well Go Entertainment had it, and you know we never go far wrong with them.

Riding high on the download and play charts, thanks to “Stranger Things.” Some of us remember her first American appearance, which was…astonishing. Beguiling. Enthralling. Songs with drama performed dramatically by a beautiful mop topped Brit. She was absurdly young when … Continue reading →

In California wine country, they have to take climate change seriously, and competition just as seriously. Want to set yourself apart from from the pack? Brand yourself as having a greener footprint and even more “organic” approach to wine-making. Want … Continue reading →

There’s something to be said for quitting while you’re ahead. I’m not talking about the filmmakers/paranormalists who returned to the “haunted” house in Florence, Mississippi after making “The House in Between” about their investigations into a striking, modernish A-frame where … Continue reading →