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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: Elijah Wood, trapped in the New Zealand wilderness with a “Bookworm”

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Bookworm” is a quirky Kiwi comedy that pairs-up The Once and Future Hobbit Elijah Wood with an eleven year-old girl in the wilds of his old stomping grounds, New Zealand. It’s a generally warm, kid-friendly adventure with tiny bits of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Korean Cops and Intel agents duel in “Mission: Cross”

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

Say this for “Mission: Cross.” They spent some serious money on this crap. Flipping cars, explosions, drone shot sequences, legions of black-helmeted commando minions cast, costumed and slaughtered in a James Bond “villain’s lair” finale — that doesn’t come cheap … Continue reading →

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“Saturday Night” reminds us Garrett Morris had a stand-out talent in the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players”

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

I was poking around YouTube after watching Jason Reitman’s fun trip down Boomer TV lane because “Saturday Night” makes a point of reminding us that Garrett Morris could sing. His most famous sung performance, heard in the film but actually … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Another raunchy, rowdy trip to the Bowling Alley — “The Gutter”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

Shades of “Kingpin!”  Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Susan Sarandon and Paul Reiser are among the stars of this farce that adds some color — and flava — to…bowling? “It’s Walt Liquor time, baby!” “The Gutter” rolls on Nov. 1.

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Movie Review: Chinese expat learns to trust “luck” on her “Green Night” with a Korean Drug-smuggling Pixie

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

An airport security guard finds her life upended by a sketchy/flirty pixie in green hair and fingernails in “Green Night,” a Chinese romantic thriller starring Fan Bingbing that gives international exposure to Ms. Trouble in Green, Korean starlet Lee Joo-young. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Damon, Norton, Famke, Turturro and Landau deal the cards — “Rounders” (1998)

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

The knock on “Rounders” (1998) was always that it was, to quote a review or two at the time of its release, “lazy.” It’s a genre pic, gamblers’ ups and downs as one (Matt Damon) tries to focus on law … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, “The Order”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

An Aryan Nation investigation out in Secessionist America (Idaho), starring Jude Law and Jurnee Smollett on the hunt for anti government Nazis/racists/militia nuts who rob banks and bomb synagogues, with Nicholas Hoult on the wrong side and Tye Sheridan as … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Laura and Liam visit Travel Guide Morocco — “Lonely Planet”

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Roger Moore

With Diane and Bruce as my witnesses, I swear I never thought I’d see Oscar winner Laura Dern in a movie as empty and pointless as “Lonely Planet.” But Susannah Grant, the screenwriter of “Erin Brockovich” and “The Soloist,” took … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: John & Yoko take over Daytime TV for a Week of Peace, Love, Music and Macrobiotics — “Daytime Revolution”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

On Valentine’s Day 1972, daytime TV viewers across America — senior retirees, college kids between classes, “housewives” and kids coming home from school — were treated to something entirely novel on their TV. The pleasantly bland “Mike Douglas Show,” hosted … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Deformed, then “Cured,” but is he “A Different Man?”

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

An artist, the old saying goes, is “someone who pounds the same nail, over and over again.” So it’s not a shock that “Chained for Life” writer-director Aaron Schimberg returns to the subject of beauty, disfigurement and the ways society … Continue reading →

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