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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: Bisset still has her shimmer in “Loren & Rose”

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A screen legend gives better than a lackluster indie script deserves in “Loren & Rose,” a movie about a movie-maker befriending a once-famous actress he needs to get his new movie made. Maybe there’s a bit of art-imitates-film-life in this … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominations — “Emilia Perez,” “Wicked” and “Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Dune 2” and Five Other Films compete for Best Picture

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix’s much-hyped “Emilia Perez” musical led the way with 13 nominations when the much-delayed contenders for the 97th Academy Awards were announced this morning. “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” scored ten nominations each. A total of 10 films are up for … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: A UFO/UAP “Aliens” doc that promises the Moon — “The Age of Disclosure”

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A collection of (somewhat) more credible experts and officials than is usual for such docs — and Marco Rubio — tell us these “something is out there” phenomena are about to be proclaimed The Real Deal. Officially? March 25, this … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Single Mom experiences the First Day from Digital Hell — “Drop”

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Saw this trailer in a theater last Thursday. Finally Universal/Blumhouse deigned to drop it onto YouTube. Threatening “Let’s play a game” messages via a short distance “drop” into our heroine’s phone on a blind date. Hell is cellular. Meghann Fahy … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Sean Astin’s an Old West Preacher, Casper Van Dien wears the “Guns of Redemption”

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jeff Fahey plays the heavy, Kaitlyn Kemp a damsel in distress in this Old West/Morality is a Firearm tale. That’s a pretty good cast for an indie outing, even if it comes a cropper. “Guns of Redemption” streams March 7.

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Movie Review: Teacher helps a Troubled Student “Brave the Dark” of his Past

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Brave the Dark” is a earnest do-good/feel-good story of the “One Great Teacher Makes a Difference” genre. Released by Angel Studios, which brought us “Bonhoeffer,” “Sound of Freedom” and “Homestead,” where “earnest” is their brand, it’s a low-stakes, dramatically flat … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A twist on the remote house full of people who can’t make it “Until Dawn”

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Peter Stormare is in this “Fresh Faces of 2025” sinister swing into the supernatural.

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Movie Preview: Ayo Edebiri, Juliette Lewis and Malkovich and his magnum cult “Opus”

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Aged and reclusive pop icon comes out of seclusion for an”event” for the “select few.” Have Kanye or Madonna thought of this? The debut feature of Mark Anthony Green is built around a comedy central star, and John Malkovich. March … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A 1970 “radical” family working through their issues — “Three Birthdays”

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Radical” politics — sexual, racial and otherwise — Vietnam, the first Earth Day, the sexual revolution, “female solidarity” and Kent State are the backdrop of “Three Birthdays,” a downbeat family melodrama about the day “The Sixties Died.” Writer-director Jane Weinstock … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: An Italian who inspired Tarantino, “Piero Vivarelli: Life as a B-Movie”

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Piero Vivarelli was an Italian B-movie filmmaker, a “genre” director who dabbled in several genres, most famous (at home) for his musicarello pop and rock movies of the 60s. If you’ve never heard of Rita Pavone, Tony Renis, Mina and … Continue reading →

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