Author Archives: Roger Moore

A rancher, his brother and the brother’s wife are the heart of this drama. Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Keith Carradine and Thomasin McKenzie also star in this Jane Champion film for Netflix film, slated for a December awards … Continue reading →

You might remember the end of this story. A murderous Saudi sheik buys a mysterious “lost” painting by Leonardo da Vinci for a king’s ransom and tries to get it wholly legitimized by loaning it to the Louvre Museum to … Continue reading →

The tennis is good, the filming and editing of the tennis even better in the French sports melodrama “Final Set.” It’s a “Big Game/Big Match” movie with all the trappings of the genre — lots of foreshadowing, an aged veteran … Continue reading →

It’s a tribute to the professionalism of your typical movie set that all C-movies don’t face that mid-production attack of the giggles that impacts what we see on the screen. The film has little budget. The cast has been on … Continue reading →

Ruth Platt’s “Martyr’s Lane” is horror at a low simmer, a triumph of tone over content, performances over frights. This beautifully Gothic ghost story rests on the shoulders of two angelic moppets, a film that makes its myopic simplicity a … Continue reading →

This opened in the UK during the pandemic (Streamed?) and finally gets a US release Sept. 17.

Melissa McCarthy is in mourning, and a damned starling is ruining her garden and her life. Chris O’Dowd raises the bar, playing the spouse of this broken relationship. And Oscar winner Kevin Kline lends grand seriocomic support. This looks like … Continue reading →

A “Chinatown on the Cheap” tale of a missing teen, gangland shenanigans, water rights, the works, all uncovered by a “special ops” (the hoariest trope in action cinema) veteran. Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Sloan, Taryn Manning, Jake Webber and … Continue reading →

The plot has been around since Shakespeare sold out to Netflix. Guy courts woman, or vice versa, based on a dare, a bet or some other “arrangement.” It’s a “Taming of the Shrew” variation, whether it’s “Cruel Intentions” or “Ten … Continue reading →

He died in 1995, but there’s plenty of evidence that PBS painting show star Bob Ross is as popular as ever. For starters, the reruns of the 30 series of “Joy of Painting” that he did for the network are … Continue reading →