Author Archives: Roger Moore

There is no better time capsule for the outlandish, post-Bond action cinema of the ’60s than the camp comic book romp “Danger: Diabolik.” This Franco-Italian heist thriller was “Matt Helm” meets “Batman,” all lavish modernist sets and near-nudity, fake blood, … Continue reading →

The most interesting thing in “Twelve” is not what this Little League “big game” movie is all about. The boy who longs to make it to The Little League World Series has been cut from the team in the Connecticut … Continue reading →

  Releasing “Planet of the Humans” on Earth Day is either an epic piece of “bad timing,” or a solitary act of defiance in the face of everything and everyone this environmental documentary opposes. Let’s lean towards the latter. Because … Continue reading →

The “Big Game” sports movie gets some welcome Caribbean in “Sprinter,” a drama about the pitfall-filled rise of a Jamaican short-distance runner. It’s pure formula and almost pure hokum, but as everything sounds more fun in that musical Jamaican patois, … Continue reading →

It’s easy to make too much out of “the last role Felicity Huffman took before going to prison” with “Tammy’s Always Dying.” A dressed-down, alcoholic, depressed and promiscuous mother — constantly threatening suicide — and the impact that has on … Continue reading →

Ask a hundred film buffs what their favorite cult film is, and you’ll get 500 answers. Because nobody wants to limit that pick to the obvious — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Harold & Maude,” “Eraserhead” — to admit how … Continue reading →

Molly Sims is the right Missy. Lauren Lupkus is “The Wrong Missy.” David Spade is back? Thanks, Netflix. May 13.

    Too many movies to name begin with a famous quotation as an opening title, a prologue that parks the objectives of the story within the parameters of a pithy observation about life, love or the world we live … Continue reading →

Early ’90s, a self-sustaining human habitat experiment in a biosphere. It was so fascinating that it even inspired a Pauly Shore movie. Remember Pauly Shore? May 8, this Neon documentary remembers this event in the words of the people who … Continue reading →

Eva and Brandon are that couple that you’re rooting for in high school or hoping that they make it through college together. And so is the movie about their romance. “Angelfish” covers very familiar cinematic ground. He’s from the wrong … Continue reading →