Author Archives: Roger Moore

Whatever the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)” has to say on the subject, the movies have long maintained that there’s a thin line between “loveable eccentric” and “mentally ill.” While we’ve (mostly) progressed beyond the “all the … Continue reading →

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” outing is a “true crime” police procedural about the hunt for a missing Italian teen, and the precedent-setting steps a dogged prosecutor took to find her, and then arrest her killer and bring him … Continue reading →

Coming back to Serge Eisenstein‘s textbook on screen editing and second best masterpiece of Soviet propaganda makes me recall when I first saw it, the MTV-80s. Back then, filmmakers moving from TV commercials and music videos were taking over the … Continue reading →

Living on the water, I see the evidence of the poisonous litter that never goes away every single day. Let the cranks rage about losing their Mountain Dew bottles and straws, this nightmare is killing our waterways and getting into … Continue reading →

For an hour or so, I wondered why exactly National Treasure Tom Hanks would take “Finch,” a sometimes cutesy, often maudlin End Times tale pairing him with a robot. Then he gets to the “telling anecdote,” the tale his character … Continue reading →

British singer-songwriter and filmmaker Jeymes Samuel got Netflix money and an all-star cast to make his follow-up to “They Die By Dawn,” a Western that gathers many of the most famous or notorious African American figures of the Old West … Continue reading →

Oscar winning best director and indie icon Chloé Zhao presides over another big budget, huge-cast “All in the Fractious Family” Marvel monstrosity with “Eternals,” an origin story that dates from when the comic book colossus ran out of things to … Continue reading →

Maybe. I’ve reviewed five films on the day before Veteran’s Day. So far (“Eternals” i finally get around to watching tonight.). Another five tomorrow? Maybe not. But “Nevsky” and “October?” You bet I’m getting to those.

Jim Cummings isn’t subtle in “The Beta Test.” He mugs, he twitches. His expressions are broad. His banter hurtles, almost out of his mouth’s control. He hits his punchlines a little too hard. But damn, he’s funny in it. As … Continue reading →

“Marionette” is a perfectly-gloomy but overly-subdued Scottish thriller pretty much wholly undone by a contorted “twist” that derails its third act. Dutch director Elbert van Strien, remaking and expanding on a short film he made, rounded up a decent cast … Continue reading →