Author Archives: Roger Moore

There are two ways to go with a story about a toddler left alone to fend for herself — tragedy or comedy. The’90s slapstick farce “Baby’s Day Out” was an example of the latter, the touching French little-girl-lost drama “Ponette” … Continue reading →

Here’s a fun read from The Hollywood Reporter, chatting with several survivors of that seminal shoot, edit and release. The film came out on July 14, 1969. Fonda, Toni Basil, Roger McGuinn, Henry Jaglom, Roger Corman. Over the years I’ve … Continue reading →

Damn, look at the scale of this. A manga period piece turned into an action spectacle of the sort that might normally turn up in anime form. Not keen on the period-inappropriate music. But… Look for this one, subtitles and … Continue reading →

Interesting homework from the folks at SoCal Pulse https://socalpulse.com/blog/2019/07/03/blast-from-the-past-how-tarantinos-film-transformed-la-landmarks/

Is there nothing the man can’t do? Courtesy of The New Yorker. .@JohnLithgow wrote a poem about about the Trump Administration’s many scandals, and he would like to read it to you now. https://t.co/PxwoXcidTH https://t.co/bJYqg9W88v https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1149443103444602881?s=17

The most emphatic proof that Ben Kingsley is one of the greatest actors who ever lived. A 2000 classic about British mob toughs with the formidable Ray Winstone and Ian McShane, and all involved are terrified, as are we, of … Continue reading →

It didn’t much urging, but Peter “Jaws” Benchley had to teach us to be afraid of sharks. We don’t any such prompting, or hit novels or movies, to be terrified of alligators. That’s primal, primeval even. That’s what “Crawl” has … Continue reading →

I spend waaaaaaaaaay too much time waiting for movies to begin for Twitter et al to ever hold my interest. I bring a book. This one’s built around social media tributes to A Bourdain. Two pages in and it’s already … Continue reading →

Set in Florida, filmed in…Serbia? WTHell? We take gators SERIOUSLY here in the sunshine and surviving gator mating season (they travel a lot, turn up in unexpected places) state. And Paramount opened this in…Australia first? More of a “crocodile” country, … Continue reading →

In the Golden Age classic “Sullivan’s Travels,” a snobbish director of fluffy Hollwood comedies (Joel McCrea) learns the value of what he does, and does best, and accepts it after going out among the people. In “Star Trek: The Wrath … Continue reading →