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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 Preview: Horror comes not just to the leading lady, but to the “Bystanders”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Murderously misogynistic teen bros come for the “wrong” teen girls? That’s what I’m picking up from the “Bystanders” trailer. This one made the round of the horror film fest circuit and drops on streaming Jan. 21.

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Movie Review: Donnie Yen punches and kicks for justice as “The Prosecutor”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Martial arts icon Donnie Yen directs and stars in “The Prosecutor,” playing a two-fisted, idealistic Hong Kong cop turned prosecuting attorney. Some of the most fantastic fights in recent screen history, choreographed by Takahita Ouichi and Donnie Yen Stunt Team … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Sound of Freedom” Angel Studios’ next “True Story” — “Brave the Dark”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A teacher takes a shot at saving a troubled teen boy. Jared Harris stars in this drama about a kid who may have to choose between running track, and a lifetime of trouble. Jan. 24 is when “Brave the Dark” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Richard Dreyfuss has advice for actors diving “Into the Deep”

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jan 24, Callum McGowan, Scout Taylor Compton, Jon Ceda and Stuart Thompson figure out if the Old Man of the Sea — and star of “Jaws” — should be heeded when it comes to scuba diving and sharks. Could be … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Blizzard Season is the perfect time to get Stuck on “The Sticky”

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Margo Martindale, one of the grande dames of American character actresses, gets her best starring role in forever in “The Sticky,” a Quebec-set comedy about intrigues, betrayal, corruption and murder, all of it spinning around an infamous piece of Quebec … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: All the World’s a Gamescape — “Grand Theft Hamlet”

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Making art in the middle of the apocalypse is the literal and figurative ethos of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” one of the cleverest “What can we do during lockdown?” pandemic picture projects. A couple of British actors — Sam Crane and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Sarandon, Delany and Dafoe, as Schraeder’s “Light Sleeper” (1992)

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” and writer-director of “Cat People,” “American Gigolo” and “Light of Day” never really went away. But this most spiritual, Calvinist and cerebral filmmaker had his years in … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full” becomes an Oversexed Cracker Cartoon for Netflix

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Tom Wolfe’s darkly comic 1998 novel “A Man in Full” comes to the screen, courtesy of another king of ’80s and ’90s entertainment, TV writer/producer David E. Kelley. The book, uneven but page-turning trash encompassing Wolfe’s favorite themes — class, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Millennials try to buy-in or opt-out of the “American Meltdown”

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

“American Meltdown” is a comic buddy picture that taps into the deep well of Millennial angst and grievance about a “system” that is finally so broken it doesn’t work for them. At all. Like a lot of fiction and op … Continue reading →

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Damn. Snowed/Iced-in and no wifi — Let’s rewatch “The Duke”

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Winter Storm Blair,” the drama queens at The Weather Channel call it — Looking at you, Meryl Cantore. Bad weather means no internet.  No screener links, no Netflix or Prime or 🍏 work. And the Biden Administration’s “Build Back Better” … Continue reading →

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