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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Movie Review: “Insurgent”

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Insurgent” doesn’t seriously diverge from the “Divergent/Hunger Games/Maze Runner” formula until its final act. Up until then, this “Divergent” sequel is Young Adults Save the World generic. It’s action-packed in the extreme, as Young Heroine Tris (Shailene Woodely) and “Dauntless” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter”

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” didn’t really happen. It’s an urban legend. It’s sort of like “Fargo” that way. That’s the movie that Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi of “Pacific Rim”) stumbles across while beach-combing near Tokyo. It’s buried in the sand in … Continue reading →

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“Insurgent” star Octavia Spencer: Still America’s “Best Supporting Actress”

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Roger Moore

Octavia Spencer has spent the years since her 2012 Oscar night cashing in on the success “The Help” brought her. She was the mother of a police shooting victim in the critically acclaimed “Fruitvale Station,” an alcoholic helping a much … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Eva”

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Roger Moore

It’s possible to tell a sci-fi story about the coming age of sentient machines without a “Chappie” size budget, or turning “Chappie” insipid. “Eva” is a modestly chilling if predictable Spanish science fiction film about “emo” robots. A 2011 vehicle … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Run All Night”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Run All Night” is a first-person shooter thriller for the Just for  Men/Grecian Formula generation. Old men — cops and mobsters — sit in bars, drink their Scotch on the rocks and talk about the “old neighborhood,” their long history … Continue reading →

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“Zoolander 2?” It’s happening

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

Here’s how Derek and Hansel announced it. By walking the catwalk at Fashion Week in Paris, for Valentino. Well-played. Sure, it’s probably too late for them to return to these guys. This sort of comedy is passe in “The Hangover” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mr. Kaplan”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

“Mr. Kaplan”, Uruguay’s contender for the best foreign language film Oscar, is about an elderly Jew who ponders whether he “inspired” anyone, if he’s “accomplished anything memorable.” Jacob Kaplan (Héctor Noguera) decides the answer is “no,” and results to do … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Disney delivers a lovely, dull “Cinderella”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

Of all the Cinderellas that Disney could have updated, how on Earth did they settle on this one? This Kenneth Branagh version, scripted by Chris “About a Boy” Weitz, is stately and sumptuous, but dull and never ever delightful. The … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Ghoul”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

A film crew hoping to shoot a killer pilot for a TV series on “Cannibals of the 20th Century” — no doubt Discovery is interested — heads into rural Ukraine to document a mass murderer and cannibal who survived Stalin’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “It Follows”

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roger Moore

It’s nearly impossible, in our horror-glutted culture, to find a novel spin to the classic tropes of scary movies. But David Robert Mitchell does just that with “It Follows.” It’s a chased-by-zombie-walking-demons thriller in which the victims have to have … Continue reading →

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