Author Archives: Roger Moore

With the pandemic shutting down live performances for over a year and better-informed/cautious fans still leery of festival seating or moshing their way back into venues, alt rock/arena rock/pop rockers Shinedown decided to remind fans they’re out there — or … Continue reading →

Cops, pinned down and outnumbered… But did they get vaccinated? Oct 8.

Spare, intense and deeply unnerving, “Anne at 13,000 ft” an indie drama that manages to keep the viewer on tenterhooks by concentrating on the bare essentials — an unbalanced young woman who is never more than one bad day from … Continue reading →

“Saving Paradise” is another old fashioned, sentimental take on work, workplaces and their value in an America that has ceded control of such things to Wall Street, and watched as Main Street paid the price. Yes, thirty years after “Other … Continue reading →

Sure, you had me at “Yakuza Princess.” But was there ever a more ponderous gangland saga set in the Japanese mafia than this? It has a novel setting – the Liberdade neighborhood of Sao Paolo, Brazil, home to the largest … Continue reading →

Beware the writer/director/star filmmaker who imagines his character as irresistible catnip to the ladies. Call it the “Edward Burns Delusion,” because it’s a good rule of thumb, and a cautionary one worth taking into account if you’re writing yourself into … Continue reading →

Manchurian atrocities in 1940, intrigues, a moral dilemma in a fascist state. Kino Lorber has this film fest darling coming out on Sept.17.

“Really Love” invites you to tumble into its sophisticated milieu, the Washington, D.C. of African American art and artists, aspirational affluence and a romance that crosses classes. The tony galleries, early career ambitions, beautiful people doing beautiful things set to … Continue reading →

“The Madness Inside Me” is a lukewarm-at-best psychological thriller about a widowed crime victim who engages in sexually charged games with the man who killed her husband. The added twist? Madison (Merrin Dungey) is a forensic psychologist. She knows the … Continue reading →

A thriller with disappearances at it’s heart and a “Three Billboards”like heroine. Robyn Lively stars in this festival award winner on its way to a theater)streamer near you.