Author Archives: Roger Moore

If you want to know what the cool kids are watching this weekend… Well, white suburbanite teens with a taste for heavy metal, if nobody else, should go all “School of Rock” over this seriously transgressive high school comedy called … Continue reading →

https://wp.me/p30FOE-kh The gold standard for spy thrillers isn’t Sir Ian’s Fantastical Mr. Bond, James Bond. That label belongs to the gritty, patient and “real world/real consequences” human-assets spycraft as depicted in the novels of John LeCarre of “Tinker Tailor Soldier … Continue reading →

You don’t have to be a big fan of “Fiddler on the Roof” to get a kick out of “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” the warm and lighthearted documentary remembrance of this 1971 film. But if you see this … Continue reading →

Novice duffer named Maurice Flitcroft takes a whack at the British Open. He was a crane operator at a shipyard, one of those places with lots of hyphens in the name — Barrow-in-Furness. And at 46, he decided to take … Continue reading →

Longoria and Matt Walsh play a married couple — with a tween daughter — who take off for the middle of nowhere to get away from their phones and reconnect with their lives, nature and each other in “Unplugging.” Of … Continue reading →

“Furioza” takes us inside the criminal world of Polish soccer hooligans, showing us a gang that has moved beyond brawling and stealing an opposing team’s flag and into providing muscle and transport for the drug trade. It’s a brutally violent, … Continue reading →

They label the neighborhoods of Paris “arrondissements,” which translates as bureaucratic “districts” but in French sounds ever-so-sexy. Whatever one thinks of Notting Hill, Hyde Park, Buckhead, Park Slope or Silverlake, the allure of romance in this or that arrondissement checkmates … Continue reading →

John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love,” “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”) directs Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly MacDonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs in this story of a spy game played with a corpse meant to fool Gerry into thinking … Continue reading →

Top tip here. One should never dip into a “Wyrmwood” zombie film around meal time — yours, or theirs. “Wyrmwood: Apocalypse,” the sequel to 2014’s “Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead,” is a “Zombieland” meets “Soylent Green” blood-on-the-lens splatterfest. It’s probably … Continue reading →

Cristi’s out of town visitor Hadi is a German-Turkish flight attendant so handsome that he can’t wait to get him to his apartment. The elevator will do. But when his sister drops by, she chides her brother for not taking … Continue reading →