Author Archives: Roger Moore

“No Escape Room,” the latest horror riff on the “escape room from Hell” theme, has the building blocks of a solid genre thriller. Five people undertake a mysterious small town escape room experience. The puzzle-it-out clues are challenging as all … Continue reading →

This trailer has a touch of whizbang about it and is slated for Jan. 2022 release. And for those keeping score at home, the presence of Penelope Cruz and Lupita N’Yongo means this has two Oscar winners in its cast.

Teaching and treason in the run up to The War. This looks promising.

A grave injustice has been done by a heartless, greedy and smug villain. A corrupt, easily-gamed system has been twisted and an old woman’s freedom and fortune have been stolen. And as you watch, slack-jawed, as “I Care a Lot” … Continue reading →

Just our luck. We finally get a decent disaster movie, and it arrives in the middle of a pandemic. Some people saw it, but most theaters were closed, so the vast majority of us missed the apocalyptic effects, high tension … Continue reading →

This looks like the best big screen role Jeremy Piven’s had in forever. Duplicitous, a little hapless, accented. Damn. Look at this. A March release.

One hundred and twenty-seven years of boxing pictures, and a little indie film comes along and shows us the ring in ways we haven’t seen before. “In Full Bloom” is a patient, simple post-war parable of fighters — cultures in … Continue reading →

Serj Tankian is one of those rock stars who has decided to use his fame and his voice to speak out on political issues he finds important. The lead singer for the LA metal band System of a Down is … Continue reading →

A compelling lead who looks a little like Lady Day and sounds a lot like her, even when she sings, and a story with all the pathos built into it makes for a generally compelling screen biography of jazz icon … Continue reading →

What fresh MERDE is this? A manic, gasping coke-fueled farce, “The Misadventures of Hedi and Cokeman” is the French anti-stoner comedy. As in, Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar never ever got this worked up. Raging, guffawing, punching and … Continue reading →