Author Archives: Roger Moore

That rich Hollywood tradition of throwing two people together in an unusual way earns a Turkish twist in “One-Way to Tomorrow,” a simple romance about two people thrown together on a long train ride. Director Ozan Açiktan and screenwriter Faruk Ozerten, … Continue reading →

Even if you don’t speak French, the balls-out French cars-and-criminals thriller “Lost Bullet” will teach you the only three words you need to review it. “Oh putain oui!” Or as we say in the States, “Aw HELL yeah!” This gonzo … Continue reading →

Whatever feelings “A Regular Woman,” a first-person account of a victim of an “honor killing” among Turkish Kurds in Germany, smug superiority barely enters the mind. German director Sherry Hormann, working from a script based on an infamous 2005 case, … Continue reading →

An exceptionally well-cast account of the Cuban spies vs. South Florida anti-Castro activists war of the 1990s, “Wasp Network,” comes apart in a big way almost precisely at the midway point. The mysteries of a story about Cuban men defecting … Continue reading →

  If Charles Dickens was alive today, would he try his hand at being a socially conscious fiction writer in film? That’s the intriguing question posed by “Run with the Hunted,” a gritty near miss of a B-movie about abused … Continue reading →

Art and oddness, dash of cute and a Viking funeral in the land of the midnight sun. Quiver will release this one soon.

“Mr. Jones” is a story of three journalists. One persistently and somewhat naively stumbled into a genocidal scandal of world-shaking proportions. One tried to cover it up from the pages of one of the world’s great newspapers, and became one … Continue reading →

Allison Brie and Dan Stevens star in another vacation “rental” house from hell story. More conventional, not supernatural. Love the music and the visual chills in this Dave Franco directed thriller.

On television? No. On HBO.

A top drawer writer/director, solid A-, B+ list talent and a haunted house seemingly designed by Maurice Escher class up the mildly-scary thriller, “You Should Have Left.” It has an A-picture gloss and sophistication often missing from the genre. The … Continue reading →