Author Archives: Roger Moore

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd of TV’s “Queen’s Gambit” landed the lead. Here’s a look at him in character, and at the real Beatles manager Brian Epstein — dapper, gay, classy and canny — whom he’ll be playing. Rosie Day (“Outlander”) just joined … Continue reading →

A February 18 release with a lot of geography, exotic cultures, and Spider Man and Marky Mark. Looks…nuts. Bugs Bunny Physics, “National Treasure/Tomb-Raiders” plotting…

The director did “Dodgeball” and “We’re the Millers” and DJohnson’s “Central Intelligence” is behind this Netflix comedy/thriller, about an art thief hunted by Interpol, among others. We’ll see what Rawson Marshall Thurber finds funny in all this Nov. 12.

In the late spring of 1951, John Ford and his repertory company decamped from Monument Valley and Hollywood and took passage — paid for by B-Western house Republic Pictures — to The Old Country, the Eire of John Ford’s imagination. … Continue reading →

This Netflix drama stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as a haunted mother of “two daughters” on holiday, running into a mother (Dakota Johnson) distracted and overwhelmed and perhaps disinterested in hers. Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard and Jessie Buckley also star … Continue reading →

Given away, “groomed” for a 19th century life of prostitution, this adaptation of a Francine Rivers stars Abigail Cowen and features Famke Janssen as a villain. Jan. 21.

This Edgar Wright drama/thriller with comic undertones opens Friday in some parts of the world, end of the month in others. Classic breathless sultry “selling” of the song by a siren du jour, ATJ.

On December 10, “Luuuuuuuuucy” comes back to life in this biopic of the pioneering TV moguls/power couple. J.K. Simmons is another Oscar winner decorating this Oscar bait. Nina Arianda plays Vivian Vance to his William Crawley, with Alia Shawkat, Linda … Continue reading →

This minimalist, haunted looking take on “the Scottish play” resembles the Orson Welles 1940s version. Knowing the Coen Brothers (Joel directed and adapted it), no doubt they/he willdeny ever seeing that “Macbeth” before taking on “The Tragedy of Macbeth” for … Continue reading →

What do we think? “Twilight” to “Dark Knight at Midnight?” It’s dark enough, but the casting and the visuals suggest a tiny hint of Tim Burton whimsy. Zoe Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Turturro, Farrell and Jeffrey Wright? Keoghan and Dano? I’m … Continue reading →