Author Archives: Roger Moore

Of course Stones Fanatic Martin Scorsese produced this look inside the “Chelsea drug store.” A notorious landmark of rock history is explored in this documentary, coming out July 8. Cannot wait to see it, and hopefully Magnolia Pictures won’t make … Continue reading →

A life limited by poverty and rigidly patriarchal Catholicism is what Clara always has. Does her niece, about to have her quincenera, deserve better? This one opens July1.

“Nude Tuesday” is a a deadpan, daft and seriously off-center comedy from The Other Land Under, New Zealand. No, it’s not their first. The presence of Jemaine Clement in the cast reminds us of that. But this screwball/screws-loose “Couples Retreat” … Continue reading →

Here’s how that film franchise practice of “fan service” can bite you right in the arse. You bring back the stars of the original trilogy, have them share the screen with your “reboot” cast, and everybody watching is slapped in … Continue reading →

A star poet is handed the latest work by his younger protege. It is titled “Disabled.” The protege is Wilfred Owen, one of the great voices of the trenches of the Great War. The mentor is Siegfried Sassoon, the other … Continue reading →

A good cast and the best of intentions cannot save the 1970s Boston school busing melodrama “The Walk” from its excesses. Funereal pacing, characters that are simplistic “types” and dialogue that recycles cliches and bromides pretty much overwhelm it. But … Continue reading →

A “Predator” prequel…set waaaaay before Arnold and Jesse & Co. ran into the alien hunter. “Comanche vs. Predator” would have been a catchier title. August 5 on Hulu.

We can’t quit “Peter Pan.” A simple children’s play with themes of mortality, vanishing youth, feminine teenaged longing for Peter and boys-who-don’t-grow-into-men (“Peter Pan Syndrome”) and death and dying, aka the ultimate “awfully big adventure,” have proven irresistible to novelists … Continue reading →

An IFC creepout, headed our way in July. Are you scared yet?

Post partum depression triggers something in this house a couple moves into. “Abandoned” opens June 17.