Author Archives: Roger Moore

“My Salinger Year” is “The Devil Wears Prada,” set in a literary agency and with many of the rough edges rubbed off. Margaret Qualley, cleaned-up from her grubby Manson disciple of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” is our privileged young … Continue reading →

Actor turned director David S. Hogan gives us a C-movie that looks every inch an A-picture with “The Parish.” It may be that latest remix of a worn-out formula, with a “mystery” we’re two or three steps ahead of, first … Continue reading →

Whatever their place within German culture, film comedies exported from Germany are a relatively rare thing and another reason to buy into “Around the World With Netflix.” How else are we to know what Hollywood and recent history’s favorite villains … Continue reading →

Now this? THIS looks original. Coming Friday.

Kelly McCormack and Colm Feore star in this story of a musician who just needs a little help paying her bills until her big break. From the looks of things, director Wendy Morgan (“Backstage”) keeps things just artsy enough to … Continue reading →

When she coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe the callous, uncaring and otherwise inconsequential men and women who carried out The Holocaust and society’s ways of “normalizing” their actions, Hannah Arendt was seriously underestimating Hollywood’s response to … Continue reading →

Douglas Kirkland isn’t the first name to pop up when the Western world ponders photographers of the celebrated and powerful. Leibowitz, Avedon, Ritts, Helmut Newton, maybe even Irving Penn if you’re into history. Penn was something of a mentor to … Continue reading →

A tepid period melodrama set against the backdrop of Czech history, “The Affair” might best be described as a movie about a house. That’s more accurate. Czech director Julius Sevcík (“A Prominent Patient”) has made a film of Simon Mawer’s … Continue reading →

Um, okay. “Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm” is a fine fun semi-scripted farce. Ripped Rudy a new one. But an Oscar contender? No “News of the World” or “Another Round” or “The Father” or “emma.” Or “David Copperfield” or…what else do you … Continue reading →

A rambling, generic mobster’s-rise-in-flashback story, with a ludicrous terrorism trial as its framework, actors ranging from competent to amateurish and most of them unable to hide their disengagement from the script, “Dutch” has it all. And then you look at … Continue reading →