Author Archives: Roger Moore

You can make the argument that Richard Pryor was the greatest, and I’ll hear you out. Some will toss Lenny Bruce in there to stir it up. But once you’ve said your piece, we’ll look at the evidence, the influence, … Continue reading →

Harry Styles and Florence Pugh star in this Sept. 23 release, directed by and co-starring Wilde, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan. A 1960-ish romantic mystery-thriller with a whiff of sci-fi about it?

“Mishan Impossible” is a picaresque tale of clueless but cute kids hunting “India’s most wanted criminal” to score some cash, set against the ultra-violence of India’s child trafficking epidemic. It takes forEVER to get started — a 30 minute prologue … Continue reading →

This period piece — @1960 from the looks of the cars — is based on a bit novel about a British housekeeper who dreams of owning a Dior “frock.” Leslie Manville had the title role, with Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, … Continue reading →

This is why we travel “Around the World with Netflix.” We peek into other cultures, weigh their differing values, mores and customs. Sometimes, we puzzle over how different we can be, from culture to culture, continent to continent. And sometimes, … Continue reading →

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 →