Author Archives: Roger Moore

Roger Michell, the South African-born British director of theater, film and TV, passed away without notice (“undisclosed”) last fall, before his final two filmed works — one of them a new documentary about Britain’s longest reigning queen — were released. … Continue reading →

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” film is a lot like its lead character, a young Amish man in search of his identity, his place in the world. “Rumspringa” follows this lad on that teenage walkabout amongst the sinful temptations … Continue reading →

A family haunted by suicides past and present wrestles with Camus’ “the only serious question in life” in “All My Puny Sorrows,” a somber and biting new adaptation of Miriam Toew’s book, filmed by the director of “Saint Ralph.” Two … Continue reading →

You read that and you almost don’t need to see the trailer to this Searchlight pic coming to Hulu in June. All you could possibly have a question about is if “Fire Island” is a period piece about say, the … Continue reading →

The repeated Russian invasions of Ukraine have resulted in several notable films that have looked at this “situation” through sad, angry and even ironic eyes. And many of them have been acquired by Film Movement so that we can see … Continue reading →

The striking scenery of Mauritius is the chief selling point of “Honeymoon With My Mother,” a downbeat romantic comedy that tends toward dull. It’s as if the film’s frothy opening — a wedding interrupted by a romantic who hurtles into … Continue reading →

Is it about some sort of cream-of-the-crop kush altering this actor’s life, or his REALITY? Hard to tell. But it doth look funny.

“The Polka King” is one of those titles you scroll by because you’re sure you’ve seen it, even if you haven’t. It stars Jack Black as a loveable, generous but criminal con artist, a real person who used other people’s … Continue reading →

Check out the look, tone music and graphics to the “true story” about an entrepreneur who cleaned up an oil spill and created a place at the table for himself and all who followed. June 10, we’ll see if the … Continue reading →

The concept of “public intellectual” never enjoyed the status in the United States that it’s long had elsewhere. We can label a Noam Chomsky, Betty Friedan or Henry Louis Gates as such, but even they’re not venerated the way a … Continue reading →