Author Archives: Roger Moore

More interesting as another technical exercise in “making a movie look like your Facebook page,” “Profile” comes to screens too late to catch “ISIS Fever,” too obvious to quite come off. I mean, if the average viewer sees things the … Continue reading →

“The exchange, “You’re putting in your own septic?” “I think I can handle it” is horrific enough to the average home or single wide owner. June 1, this bad boy becomes accessible to mere mortals everywhere.

“The Strange House (Das schaurige Haus)” is a screwball German mystery-dramedy about kids in search of who is haunting this house some of them have moved into, and why. Something or former someones are “possessing” two brothers, new kids in … Continue reading →

No one in Hollywood would dare make a movie about a 25-30 year old actor taking up with an infatuated girl of 16. Not today. That’s the sort of thing that makes career-ending headlines when it happens off screen. But … Continue reading →

Some seriously “special” effects and a curious time and mind-bending story are the selling points of “Super Me,” a high-gloss Chinese wish fulfillment fantasy. It’s about a guy who learns to manipulate his nightmares into dreams that grant him his … Continue reading →

A tepid attempt to graft agoraphobia onto the weary “indie filmmaker trying to get a second film made” comedy, “Welcome Matt” neither delivers laughs nor insights to an illness a lot of people think about as a pandemic winds down. … Continue reading →

A brisk, bracing opening straight out of “The Stand,” only set to Elvis and Elvis covers, sets the tone. “Army of the Dead” is going to be jaunty, and because there’s little new that can be done with zombies, that’s … Continue reading →

The great Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovskiy’s remarkable third act “comeback” in the West began with an allegorical Life of Michelangelo, a Russian-Italian co-production titled “Il peccato” or “Sin.” The director of the ’80s masterpiece “Runaway Train” had decades in the … Continue reading →

Their eyes lock in across the darkened room. They share a smile, and as their finely-waxed mustaches meet, they kiss. “The Dance of the 41 (El Baile de los 41)” is Mexico’s “Age of the Not-So-Innocent,” a beautifully baroque period … Continue reading →

“Ferry” is a straight-up old-fashioned “mobster grows morals” thriller from The Netherlands, a movie that doesn’t surprise but does what it does with efficiency and a hint of style. And I don’t think it gives too much away saying that … Continue reading →