Author Archives: Roger Moore

The prolific Barcelona screenwriter and director Cesc Gay gave us the man and his dog dramedy “Truman,” and the edgier “The People Upstairs,” aka “Sentimental,” just remade by Olivia Wilde as “The Invite.” So when you see his name on … Continue reading →

For a preachy, unevenly-acted thriller about the threat of a school shooting, the indie “Honor Student” certainly punches above its weight. Director and co-writer Tamika Miller gets into the messy politics of gun control, references earlier school massacres, from Columbine … Continue reading →

It may be a cliche, but there are few more “liberating” images in the cinema than having your heroine toss aside convention and decorum and dunk her head in the public village fountain in some eternally sunny corner of Provence. … Continue reading →

That cast. That director. That gut! This October, we’ve got ourselves a Hail Mary for an Oscar nomination for the movies’ Most Valuable Player.

A grab bag of thriller tropes and action beats is tossed at another “human trafficking” thriller, this one from Spain, in “The Marked Woman.” We’ve got an amnesiac with Jason Bourne skills. Because one never forgets one’s martial arts training. … Continue reading →

One of the cinema’s great talents, grand figures and a gentleman in full, Sam Neill has died. He’d fought a deadly cancer off, but that battle must have taken a terrible toll to get him to “cancer free.” He was … Continue reading →

On its surface or beneath that surface, “The Invite” is a date movie. So go with your significant other. But speaking from experience, don’t be surprised if the whispered asides — in between elbows in the ribs — go something … Continue reading →

A Korean classic of the pre K-pop explosion, flip-phone era returns to theaters as subtle, sweet and soulful as ever. “Take Care of My Cat” is a young women’s coming-of-age tale, set in the 2001 present, a film that, synth-pop … Continue reading →

Somebody had the good sense to cut half an hour off the London romance “This Time Next Year” for its Amazon streaming release. They just didn’t finish the job. It’s a sweet-and-scenic “Hallmark Channel” love story (chaste and slow and … Continue reading →