Author Archives: Roger Moore

They’ve been together forever. You can tell from the lifetime of art, furniture, glass, silverware and china that fills their roomy but gloomy old house in the bourgeois corner of town. It’s in their conversation, the gentle bickering with the … Continue reading →

Slow to get going and lame once it gets there. I’m tempted to leave “Scary Stories to tell in the Dark” at that, because that’s about all it amounts to. There are effects, sure, in this collection of supernatural stories … Continue reading →

JT has this thriller, “The Fanatic,” that Fred Durst (Yeah, THAT Fred D) directed about an obsessed movie fan who crosses the line…several lines…in pursuit of an autograph from his ill-tempered, bullying idol (Devon Sawa). A violent parable about celebrity, … Continue reading →

The plot description smacks of a teenage “Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” The teens are Jaeden Martell, Keean Johnson and Alex Neustaedter. Shea Whigham is the cop who might be “on” to them. Norwegian model/actress Kristene Froseth is the wild … Continue reading →

Catholic exorcism tales have just one serious rival when it comes to “religious horror” movies — the snake handlers of Appalachia. There’s built-in suspense, the medulla-based terror of the reptile, the tension of not knowing if a rattler will bite, … Continue reading →

David Ayer is, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in talks to direct a WWII combat drama ‘El-Alamein’ for #Lionsgate. The once low budget mostly horror and cheap thriller studio is staking a claim to combat pictures in the digital effects … Continue reading →

If one settles in for “Blinded by the Light” expecting it to be a giddy affair, hoping to be transported by the pre-1987 music of Bruce Springsteen, one is almost sure to be disappointed. If so, it’s one’s own fault. … Continue reading →

I had some doubts, interviewing him some years ago. But the demented garbage pouring out of his sewer hole these days has the tint of backwoods dolt about it. The real “acting” must have been as a compassionate teacher of … Continue reading →

For truth in advertising, it’s hard to beat the title “Friedkin Uncut.” This documentary about the great, not-forgotten but certainly under-heralded director of “The Exorcist,” “The French Connection,” “The Boys in the Band,” “Sorcerer,” “Bug” and “Killer Joe” is formless … Continue reading →

The brisk, violent opening act of “The Kitchen” sets us up for a two-hour wallow in the grit, grime and crime of 1970s New York. The novelty alone, the building of a crime empire run by three women “married to … Continue reading →