Author Archives: Roger Moore

Nothing more instantly-dates an animated film for children than over-earnest efforts to contemporize the dialogue, to render it slangy and to-the-minute current. That’s all over the script to Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon,” where a lot of effort was … Continue reading →

May is a self-help author who’s having trouble getting a deal in place for that next book. She can be excused for thinking her agent is patronizing her when he sugar-coats the lack of enthusiasm she’s getting from publishers. No, … Continue reading →

Sure. It pretty much always was. But a couple of things add an asterisk to the already unconventional “Wisdom” of the Golden Globes. The latest investigative reminders of how corrupt and disconnected from Hollywood and America the HFPA is might … Continue reading →

One name and artist stood out while watching the new HBO Black History Month doc, “Black Artists: In the Absence of Light.” Jacob Lawrence, who died in 2000, worked in abstract realism and created this vivid, almost animated impressions of … Continue reading →

Lot of money on the screen in this trailer.

Anja looks pained, stricken. And Tomas picks up on that as they take their coats off at a Christmas party. “If it gets tough, we’ll stick together,” he offers. It’s already gotten “tough.” And he isn’t just talking about this … Continue reading →

There’s a Hippocratic Oath that anybody tackling the romantic comedy about the mentally ill genre. You can be moon-eyed, optimistic, maybe a tad unrealistic. But “first, do no harm.” What, you didn’t realize this was a thing, a whole genre … Continue reading →

Whatever else you can say about the charming and intimate documentary that follows a “Stray” dog through the streets of Istanbul, it’s a rare piece of positive PR for a Middle Eastern country that never makes the news for something … Continue reading →

Henry Golding gives his most laid-back, natural screen performance in “Monsoon,” a melancholy Vietnamese travelogue and romance. The “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Gentleman” star plays Kit, a Vietnamese expat raised in Britain who has returned to the homeland he … Continue reading →