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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

“Europa Report” is a lean, ultra-realistic sci-fi thriller that shows you don’t have to spend Tom Cruise or Will Smith money to tell a tight, intimate story. This frill-free “found footage” film may have the limited scope of a made-for-SyFy … Continue reading →

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Roger Moore | 7 Comments

Movie Preview: Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor”

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Roger Moore

The cast is first rate — Pitt, Bardem, Cruz, Fassbender and Cameron Diaz. The plot — not much revealed in this teaser. It’s a thriller about a lawyer who gets mixed up with drug trafficking. But we’re intrigued, which is … Continue reading →

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Brad “Wild Hogs” Copeland lands “Knight Rider” script job

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Roger Moore

Central Florida native screenwriter Brad Copeland, a veteran of a lot of TV sitcom scripting gigs, has landed the job of adapting “Knight Rider,” the talking Pontiac cop show of the ’80s, into a movie. Copeland also wrote “Yogi Bear.” … Continue reading →

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“Child 44” will star Tom Hardy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Roger Moore

Tom Rob Smith’s trilogy of thriller/mystery novels is about a Soviet era investigation into child murders that seem to be connected to someone politically connected, or high up in the Communist Party. So “Child 44” bears a resemblance to both … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Unfinished Song” could have used some finishing

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Roger Moore

“Unfinished Song” is a cute British senior singers dramedy all-too-obviously inspired by the 2007 American documentary “Young@Heart.” Round up some adorable retirees — “Old Age Pensioners, or O.A.P.’s” the Brits call them. Put them in tie-dyed T-shirts, teach them “The … Continue reading →

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Christensen and Brewster, Brody and Akon commit an “American Heist”

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Roger Moore

For everybody who believes there are no new plots under the sun (as Vladimir “Morphology of a Folk Tale” Propp posited, there are 27 plots — in toto — since the beginning of storytelling), here’s a remake of a Steve … Continue reading →

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Meet “Alexander” of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day”

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Roger Moore

Disney has named Ed Oxenbould as winner of the title role in this film of the popular children’s book, with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner as co-stars and Miguel Arteta behind the camera.  

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Next screening, “Unfinished Song”

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Roger Moore

Here’s a movie that sort of cashes in on that documentary of a few years back — “Young at Heart.” Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arterton and several other Great Brits star in “Unfinished Song,” now going into limited release. … Continue reading →

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Jim Carrey, who has been outspoken in his criticism of the NRA and gun enthusiasts since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, has decided that maybe making a violent action comedy before that tragedy wasn’t the best idea. He tweeted … Continue reading →

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Sci-Fi Legend Richard Matheson dies at 87.

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Roger Moore

If you enjoyed “The Twilight Zone,” you saw his work. Or “Star Trek.” His novel “I Am Legend” has been made into three films. “The Shrinking Man,” “Real Steel,” “The Box,” the list goes on and on for Richard Matheson, … Continue reading →

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