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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

BOX OFFICE: “Wicked” blows up the Box Office “For Good,” but will records fall?

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Considering that it’s on over 4100 screens, is the sequel/second half of a blockbuster that fans couldn’t get enough and it showing pretty much every thirty minutes at every cineplex in America, “Wicked: For Good” had better blow up at … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: An action pic about Mercenaries in Africa that’s titled “Lost Horizon?”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Mercenaries trying to carry out a rescue of some sort in the middle of an African civil war. Sounds a lot like a Christopher Walken outing from the ’80s, “Dogs of War.” The title “Lost Horizon” has been emblazened on … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Life Lived with Loss and a Search for meaning — “Train Dreams”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Train Dreams” is a forlorn folk ballad with pretensions of being a tone poem. This downboat but picturesque saga of one man’s life during the lumbering-mad early years of the 20th century is both intimate and remote. We see a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Wicked: For Good” does Dorothy Wrong

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I said at the start that turning “Wicked” the musical into a two-part big screen epic was a mistake. Just how big a mistake is obvious as this bloated beast staggers to the end of the Yellow Brick Road in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Sisu: Road to Revenge” takes a Wrong Turn or Three

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

I am an audience of one at a late afternoon “preview” matinee of “Sisu 2,” aka “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” the sequel to the savage sleeper hit by Finnish carnage Jalmari Helander. Do the locals know something I don’t? Or … Continue reading →

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Movie Marathon Thursday, “Wicked for Good,” “Rental Family” and “Sisu 2: Finno-Russian Boogaloo”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Erivo, Arianna and Goldblum again, Brendan F speaking Japanese and Stephen Lang as a Russian trying to kill an unkillable Finn. Again. A few more songs, some curious corners of Japanese culture and dead Russians by the dozen. A pretty … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A New Yorker widowed by a Police Shooting seeks Justice in “Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

An infamous police shooting leads to trials and a search for justice that doesn’t end in a courtroom in “Aftershock” The Nicole P. Bell Story.” It’s a sturdy, often moving fil built aroud Rayven Symone Ferrell’s affecting performance in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the “Playdate” from Hell

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The most violent children’s entertainment since “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Kevin James, features Isla Fisher as leader of a hard-drinking “gang” of soccer moms and gives the inventive character player Alan Tudyck his best shot at impersonating and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Australia’s Oscar hopes rely on Mongolians who know “The Wolves Always Come at Night”

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Wolves Always Come at Night” is an evocative immersion in a dying way of life, that of nomadic Mongolian goat, horse and cattle herders. Gabrielle Brady’s documentary captures the stark beauty of the treeless brownscape of the Mongolian steppes, … Continue reading →

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