Author Archives: Roger Moore

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 →

A dramedy about a porn star who comes home to his small town? This one opens in Dec.

This one earns limited release Nov. 2.

A parable about parenting and a grim fairytale about grief and the Natural Order of Things, “Lamb” might be the oddest film you settle in for this year. Special effects technician turned director Valdimar Jóhannsson conjures up an Icelandic story both … Continue reading →

“Sweet Thing,” the latest film from veteran indie filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell is an ambling, self-consciously arty and yet utterly conventional coming-of-age drama starring his children, Lana and Nico. If you only remember his breakthrough film, 1992’s wry “In the Soup,” … Continue reading →