Author Archives: Roger Moore

Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards rolled out this AM, live streamed in addition to televised. And “Black Panther” kept coming up, alphabetically the first film named in category after category –costumes, score, sound mixing, sound editing. Seven nominations, including … Continue reading →

Seems like everyday’s Internet assault on the eyeballs is toploaded with speculation, “push polling” on behalf of “Black Panther” (ahem), how “Viola Davis could sneak in there for ‘Widows’” (maybe, a long shot), “Crazy Rich Asians” (Really?) or something else … Continue reading →

The cast is far far FAR more impressive than the team of directors who bring this romantic travelogue to the screen. Oscar winner Helen Mirren, Diego Luna, Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Hayden Panettiere, Jenna Dewan, Luke Wilson and Jim Sturgess … Continue reading →

Truthfully, this should be enough for a movie I view as cinematic comfort food, a “Driving Miss Daisy” for our racially (and sexually) roiled times. That’s all “Green Book” is. I saw it a second time last week and zeroed … Continue reading →

Perhaps not the movie you’d expect from a top billed supported player in a blockbuster/Oscar contender like “A Star is Born.” But the ol’cowpoke who narrated the Dude’s tale in “The Big Lebowski?” Yup. A gonzo midnight action pic/tall tale … Continue reading →

Generations of film buffs got their start on Laurel & Hardy comedies — classic short films from the silent and early sound era that laid bare the basic principles of great comedy. So any sentimental film appreciation of the cinema’s … Continue reading →

The casting’s a tad unconventional — Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Laurel & Hardy? But OK. Reilly the great dons the padding and Coogan loses a little weight and takes on the light, thin voice of Stan. The … Continue reading →

No killing puppies. Apparently. The cool collectible car has been replaced by…a horse. But this summer, “John Wick 3: Parabellum” adds some firepower, somebody to lift Keanu’s game by sharing a few scenes. May 17.

Let us descend then, a stranger in a strange land checking in on the anime wonder that is “Dragon Ball Super: Broly.” I am not a devotee, so I must approach this, the 20th anime film based on “Dragon Ball,” … Continue reading →