Author Archives: Roger Moore

“Well,” you say to yourself, “one reason we travel ‘Around the World with Netflix’ is to sample other cultures, see the world from a different culture’s point of view.” So you write off piffle like “All Hail (Granizo)” as an … Continue reading →

I’ve interviewed, at various times, all three people directly involved in Sunday night’s debacle. That doesn’t mean I “know” them, but it did give me a take on what happened, and how and what its awful implications are. But Twitter … Continue reading →

An intimate piece of romantic folklore with breathtaking geographical ambition, “The Tale of the King Crab” comes to theaters feeling familiar, but startling in what it shows us and where it takes us. Its first half is an immersive Italian … Continue reading →

Film buffs will pick up on this as a sort of “Gloria” role, with Headey as the tough broad who softens when he sees the target is a little boy and his little dog. Sam Worthington plays the heavy, a … Continue reading →

Well, I’m fresh out of new ways to say “derivative,” “recycled,” “cut-and-pasted” and for old schoolers, “photocopied” or “carbon copy” about a movie without an original thought or image in its makeup. Looking for suggestions, as “The Long Night” pretty … Continue reading →

This well-cast drama, based on a novel by Miriam Toews, also stars Mare Winningham and Donal Logue. “All My Puny Sorrows” streams its way to us May 3.

Not Well Go’s usual Asian-released-in-America fare, but a straight up supernatural North American horror movie. “The Long Night” comes to Shudder April 5.

“In this game, there’s what you know, an’ what you DON’T know,” grizzled ex-con and OAP (Old Age Pensioner) Terry fumes in “King of Thieves.” And in a line that can be applied to all those too young to appreciate … Continue reading →

Tom Cruise & Co., buffing up for their Memorial Day debut. Lotta sizzle in here.

“Donbass,” writer-director Sergey Loznitsa’s send up of the farcical Russian-backed “separatists” civil war of Eastern Ukraine, is framed by having its first and last scenes in a film production makeup trailer. “Actors” or “crisis actors,” we wonder as we ponder … Continue reading →