Author Archives: Roger Moore

It’s bloody, it’s chilling, it features the voices of Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Joe Manganiello and Patton Oswalt and comes to theaters and streaming on Oct. 29, via RLJE. Lots of fanboy and fangirl — mostly fanboy — buzz … Continue reading →

“The Last Duel,” Ridley Scott’s “Rashomon,” is a brutish, well-acted and stunningly-detailed account of an infamous scandal from the supposed “Age of Chivalry.” It’s a tale of rivalries, royal favor and rape from the Caroline era of the Hundred Years … Continue reading →

“Fever Dream” is a vaguely unsettling horror parable about the ties of motherhood, tragedy and the environmental legacy we’re leaving our children. Peruvian-born writer-director Claudia Llosa, adapting Samantha Schweblin’s novel, masters the messaging and mournful tone. But the movie never … Continue reading →

This Dec. 31 musical adaptation from Joe Wright (“Atonement,” “Darkest Hour”) stars Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Ben Mendelsohn. The music? Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National did it, and there’s little here (other than Bennett’s solo) … Continue reading →

True stories of kidnappings of Westerners in the Middle East are rarely resolved with heroics. There’s little defiance by the helpless, tortured captives, rare opportunities for pithy one-liners, even if you could come up with one under such duress. The … Continue reading →

If Hollywood isn’t offering you the roles you want, the advice to screen actors always goes, “Write something for yourself.” So it was with Annika Marks, a familiar face (“The World Without You,” TV’s “Goliath,” “Waco” and “The Last Tycoon”) … Continue reading →

The hardboiled gumshoe likes his cigars skinny, his razor dull, his women curvaceous and compliant and his sex with spanking. Must be British. A meandering, dawdling murder mystery two and a half bloody hours long? Must be a TV movie … Continue reading →

Oct. 29 this supernatural thriller comes our way.

The movie production instincts are on the money, as far as “There’s Someone Inside Your House” goes. Every generation needs its “Scream,” so let’s adapt YA novelist Stephanie Perkins’ book and get it on Netflix where all the YAs’ll see … Continue reading →

Before the term “Shoah” was coined, before “Holocaust” was became the worldwide term for the mass murder of European Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and homosexuals of many races, the “denial” was well-established. Then, as now, Nazis pretended the murder of millions … Continue reading →