Author Archives: Roger Moore

“Queen of the Capital” is a softer, cuddlier version of the landmark drag queen documentary, “Paris is Burning.” It’s a new film about the drag queen scene in Washington, D.C. Where the 1990 film revealed New York’s drag queens as … Continue reading →

Having judged student films at many a film festival, I figured I knew one when I saw one. The good ones show a certain polish — craftsmanship — an attention to things significantly less important than script, casting or performances. … Continue reading →

The tone is set with the odd, edgy “meet cute” for the young lovers. It’s on an Australian train platform where the tattooed, punk druggy bumps the girl in her school uniform aside so he can get close enough to … Continue reading →

The air traffic control code for a hijacking in progress is “7500,” “seven five zero zero,” a fact that comes out in a white-knuckle-tense thriller that marks a return to the screen for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He plays the bloodied, wounded … Continue reading →

It was headed to theaters. Now this comedy is going to Hulu July 10. Does it feel big screen to you?

A red balloon plays a pivotal part of “The Luring.” About an hour in, a stilt-walking clown shows up. And then there’s the whole boyfriend with a “past” who goes “Shining” nuts on his girlfriend the longer they stay in … Continue reading →

Darn that Sunny Panwar is cute. Just casting the adorable, empathetic kid from “Lion” as “Chippa,” a Kolkata street urchin probably made first-time writer-director Safdar Rahman think, “My work here is done.” His picaresque story of an orphan’s picaresque adventures … Continue reading →

Steve Carell and Rose Byrne go at it over Wisconsin man’s man Chris Cooper campaigning for high office in this political farce. Streaming June 26.

Poor Vinnie Jones. He didn’t see wrestler-actor Stu Bennett deliver the big hurt to an ensemble of villains in “I Am Vengeance.” He was just “John Gold,” Special Forces badass in that film. Now he’s “John F—–g Gold.” He’s been … Continue reading →

A darling of the festival circuit, this is one trippy trailer.