Roscoe Writes

 

THE   REVENANT "(grunt grunt pant pant heave heave)" The same director's inexplicably Oscar-winning BIRDMAN at leas...

TALES OF HOFFMANN A strange hybrid of cinema, ballet and opera -- Offenbach's musical drama(s) gets the full Powell/Pressburger tre...

SKYFALL "What makes you think this is my first time?" SKYFALL, the latest James Bond thriller, begins with a splendid high-spe...

For the last few years I've been attending the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, a great and glorious occasion held each July at the...

SHORT TAKES--- Damn it has been a while. Here are some capsule thoughts on some things: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY "Well, dammit, what ...