Author Archives: Roger Moore

“In a New York Minute” is a film anthology that tells three loosely-connected stories about the female Chinese-American experience in New York. It’s a melodrama that traffics in diaspora generalizations that aren’t necessarily the most flattering, and whose messaging and … Continue reading →

June 16, it’s your turn to “Go to hell.”

The Mexican “40 Years Young (Cuarentones)” is a midlife crisis romantic dramedy that’s so slow that I had to check to make sure Netflix wasn’t experiencing screen-freeze. Its 81 drab minutes pass by like a long, labored comic death rattle. … Continue reading →

Hard to get a bead on exactly what’s happening in this creepy trailer to a May 17 release. Haunted place? Haunted people? An older woman with Alzheimer’s is hunted by a horror in Herefordshire. Always alliterate.

It was a city remote enough from the rest of the world’s experience or knowledge of Chinese geography that we couldn’t place it on a map. But Wuhan’s name would enter the consciousness in infamy as a global pandemic burst … Continue reading →

Thrillers beyond number have been built on the “throw a bunch of characters together and ‘test’ them” trope. So why not “Escape the Field?” Characters wakes up in a tractless/endless corn patch, with a single sinister scarecrow watching over it. … Continue reading →

A Frenchwoman of a certain age considers the question from the US Customs officer at LAX, and speaks her mind. “I want to start a new life.” And so she sort of does, 50 and “putting herself out back there” … Continue reading →

Leave it to Sam Raimi to sidetrack the efficient but creatively flatlining Marvel money train of Avengers idolatry. Granted, the director of the sparkling, soulful original “Spider-Man” trilogy spends the first two acts of “Doctor Strange in the Universe of … Continue reading →

Not sure when this Vertical release with Holly Earl, Catherine Hannay, Malachi Pullar-Latchman and Thomas Flynn comes our way. So I’ll just flesh out this post with my favorite “Jetski” jokes. That was the working title of this sharks-eat-jetskiers thriller. … Continue reading →

Yes, we’re finally getting those “Avatar” sequels James Cameron was coerced, bribed and arm twisted into creating and releasing. Disney/20th Century is attaching these to the “Doctor Strange” sequel and asked critics to come to tonight’s “Multiverse of Madness” preview … Continue reading →