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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: Ken Jeong moves the Fam to rural Wyoming — “A Great Divide”

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

San Fran sophisticates experience culture shock and xenophobia out in the Red State West. Dr. Ken does his thing. Could be cute and biting.

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Movie Review: Liev Schreiber broods beautifully in Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees”

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Across the River and Into the Trees” presents Liev Schreiber as the latest Ernest Hemingway literary alter ego to make it to the screen, and perhaps the best ever at capturing the world weariness of the late life, post-World War … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Welles’ “Othello,” a Masterpiece in Black and White and Blackface

Posted on November 3, 2024 by Roger Moore

The lore and backstory behind Orson Welles‘ years-in-the-making production of “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” has come to overwhelm the movie itself. He was so strapped for funds, filming this in Europe as his American directing career … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ben Kingsley makes a scary overture to “William Tell”

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Switzerland’s mythic hero, subject of a Frederich Schiller play nobody produces and Rossini opera nobody presents and yet whose overture is one of the most famous warhorses (classics everybody knows) in classical music, gets another Swiss “Robin Hood” style film … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Venom” loses HALF of its fangs, “Here” is barely There, “Absolution” can’t pay for its sins

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

A steep drop-off for the final film of Tom Hardy’s “Venom” trilogy was always in order. These movies have sucked, and by the second weekend, the supply of filmgoers who might go plunges and “repeat business,” even for comic book … Continue reading →

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N.C. Symphony concert night, because Cinephiles love Holst

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

There were only eight known planets in the solar system when Gustav Holst composed his orchestral suite, consisting of seven tone poems (leaving out Earth, and before Neil DeGrasse Tyson killed “Pluto”) in the middle of World War I. This … Continue reading →

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Avengers…ASSEMBLE! A reunion?

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

Sure. Well, it’s the actors who STARRED as “The Avengers.” They have a message for America, too.

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Netflixable? Troubled Swedish Family has to “Let Go” to break-up

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

Swedish actress, screenwriter and director Josephine Bornebusch conjures up a downbeat star vehicle for herself with “Let Go,” about a dysfunctional family’s trip to support their sixteen year-old in a pole-dancing competition. Sweden, right? There’s a catatonic grandfather to visit, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Reinventing the Haunted House Genre? “Presence”

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

The trailer is creepy enough, although the hyped quotes pushing this January release seem to be a collective over-reach. But maybe it’s all that. Certainly looks a step or two above your average weekly and ever-so-generic horror offering.

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Movie Review: A “Gump” sized Gimmick in Search of a Movie — “Here”

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Here” is such an empty cinematic experience that it summons up everything you ever hated about a Robert Zemeckis movie and the Zemeckis “style.” An Oscar winner with enduring classics scattered across his resume — “Cast Away,” “Back to the … Continue reading →

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