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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:  An animated biography of a great French filmmaker — “The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol”

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

The French animator Sylvain Chomet of “The Triplets of Belleville” brings this influential French playwright and filmmaker’s upbringing and career to the screen in colorful, sentimental strokes. Let’s keep an eye out for this Song Classics release.

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Movie Review: Kinnaman’s a cop who goes Deaf and Faces his most Perilous Case — “The Silent Hour”

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Roger Moore

I swear, there must be an “example” screenplay in every film school’s Screenwriting 201 textbook, one with “dirty cops” who must be overcome, outsmarted and above all else SUSPECTED in a thriller that hopes to deliver a second or third … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle star in Arthur Miller’s “The Performance”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

This film, directed by Piven’s sister — their parents are acting/comedy/improv royalty in Chicagoland — is making the festival rounds now, with a planned release in January. A pre-WWII story about a struggling Jewish tap dancer whose troupe gets a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Gable, Gardner and Grace switch partners on Safari — “Mogambo” (1953)

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Every classic film fan has her or his go-to stars, just as film fans did back when the movies were young, or stepping into middle age. I’ll watch most anything with Bogart and/or Bacall, William Powell, Gary Cooper, Joel McRea, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Michael Cera,  a Spielberg and a Scorsese celebrate  “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Elsie Fisher and Gregg Turkington also star in this offbeat romp. A multi generational Italian family holiday gathering in the ancestral home turns testy? Go figure. Throw in a couple of Hollywood “nepo babies” and you get financing. This hits theaters … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dylan for the Holidays, a new trailer for “A Complete Unknown”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Any dude with the barest hint of a singing voice and a lot of adenoids can manage a Bob Dylan impression with just a little practice. The bigger test in this Dec. 25 release will be if Monica Barbero can … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Colorless Cast reminds us that a body-switch thriller is not just “It’s What’s Inside”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

“It’s What’s Inside” is a high-concept body-switch thriller that relies on performances to convince us that this or that little-known to utterly-anonymous actors has switched roles to come off. They don’t and it doesn’t. While writer-director Greg Jardin does his … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Brit fools find “Time Travel is Dangerous”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Megan Stevenson, Ruth Syratt, Jane Horrocks and Sophie Thompson are in the cast, Stephen Fry narrates, much as he did the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” movie. But this looks 1963 “Doctor Who” cheap, goofy and sure to be a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez star in Gender-Bending Cartel tale “Emilia Pérez”

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Edgar Ramírez and Adriana Paz also star in this edgy tale of a cartel kingpin who wants to retire…as a queen. Audacious Jacques Audiard wrote “A Prophet” and “Rust & Bone” and this comic thriller/musical. Limited theatrical release as this … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt braves the “Killer Heat” to solve a Crime on Crete

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets to play a detective’s “Eureka” moment in “Killer Heat,” a new mystery thriller from the French director “Night of the Kings.” As ex-NYC cop (Aren’t they all?) Nick Bali, he rolls his eyes, paces the crime scene … Continue reading →

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