Author Archives: Roger Moore

Let’s face it. PBS is never going to produce an “American Masters” documentary on The Grateful Dead. But personal essays like “Box of Rain,” movies about the fan experience, the phenomenon of the “family” — their tribal, migrant fanbase — … Continue reading →

Guy Pearce as a Fed. Thursday night as your opening. Love that Liam.

Who’d ever guess that buried beneath the Bollywood musical romance “Hey! Sinamika” there was an Argentine rom-com one third shorter, screaming “Aye, no puedo respirar!” This “Around the World with Netflix” marathon is an Indian romance about a woman who … Continue reading →

This is pretty cool. Scorsese’s 32 year old film preservation nonprofit is going to be sharing restored films via it’s website, starting May 9. The first film will be an early work by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, “I Know … Continue reading →

Looks like “It.” Child abduction. With black balloons. Not red ones. And a more overtly Satanic clown. So of course it’s by the Son of Stephen King. The phone calls from other victims hook has a whiff of a Korean … Continue reading →

On a good vacation, time seems to stand still. You lose track of the days, the deadlines, the impending day of departure. “Good Life” is movie about such a getaway that mimics that stasis. And as anybody knows, “time seems … Continue reading →

It’s “Girls Gone Wild” meets Pete Davidson. Let’s play a game, somebody died and ohmygodohmygodohmygid who did it, you guys? Aug 4, from A24

“The One Big Union,” they called it, an organization that would represent every worker laboring for “The Man.” Unlike the “skilled labor” guilds of the earlier American Federation of Labor, it would take in everyone, including the the extreme exertion … Continue reading →

A generation ago, “Amelie,” the cheerful fantasy about a Paris coquette’s charmed life, became quite the five-time Oscar nominated punching bag, hated for its adorable and adorably-optimistic heroine. Coquettes got a bad name in the cinema after that. Gamines took … Continue reading →

Four Polish filmmakers teamed up for the vengeful and funny “State of Polska” anthology film, “The Land,” a dark episodic comedy about people lashing out, using or abusing the law and punishing each other personally for their unhappiness. This Around … Continue reading →