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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: Coming of age, “Escaping Ohio”

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

She’s ready to flee the nest and move to California. He’s determined to make the case that staying in the Buckeye State is her first, best destiny. Alas, he doesn’t turn on the weather channel and show her the wide … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy deliver “Joy” as the scientists who developed In Vitro Fertilization

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

I interviewed Dr. Patrick Steptoe, who pioneered “test tube babies,” when he traveled America for a lecture series some years back. Netflix holding back this British film about a hot button political subject seems like cowardice or worse. Nov. 22. … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: As Glimpsed in “Joker: folie à deux” — a Minnelli, Astaire and Charisse musical, “The Band Wagon” (1953)

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Nothing in a movie is there by accident. So it’s worth pondering why the 1953 screen musical “The Band Wagon” is the movie that patients/inmates at the Arkham Hospital for the Criminally Insane watch in “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Stop Motion Animation lives on in “Memoir of a Snail”

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

An Australian animated remembrance of a weird, snail-obsessed childhood. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jackie Weaver, Sarah Snook, Eric Bana and Nick Cave are among those providing voices to the latest film from the director of “Mary and Max.” This IFC (limited) release … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pop Star Robbie Williams goes Ape to show us a “Better Man”

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

A British “bio pic” musical about Robbie Williams, or a fever dream musical spinning off Williams’ sense of self by the director of “The Greatest Showman,” this holiday release has one of the more arresting trailers parked in theaters at … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “From the unhinged creators of ‘Barbarian'” — a handcuffed “Companion”

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

But who is handcuffing whom? Sophie Thatcher and Rupert Friend star in “Companion,” whose teaser trailer gives off very strong “Strange Darling” vibes. We all saw “Barbarian,” and most of us thoroughly enjoyed it. So this holds promise. Jan. 10 … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ronan makes an Oscar “Outrun” to the Orkney Islands for Immersion in Addiction and Recovery

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Few movies about getting sober are as brilliant at conveying the allure of drowning, wallowing in alcohol, the emotional and physical liberation it seems to offer, as “The Outrun.” And rare is the story told within this most personal of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “White Bird” ties a bullying tale to The Holocaust

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Novelist R.L. Palacio’s attempt to turn out a sequel to her best-seller “Wonder,” which became a Julia Roberts weeper on the big screen, seems well-intentioned enough. But tying that story about a precocious child bullied simply because he looks :different” … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Restored” for re-release, “Breakfast of Champions” (1999) is still malnourished

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Roger Moore

A lot of myth and movie lore are attached to the cinema’s epic flops. The long-gestating, all-star-cast 1999 film of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Breakfast of Champions” carries its share of such baggage. No, it didn’t end adapting screenwriter and director … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: World Leaders Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Alicia Vikander, Takehiro Hira, et al face the horror of “Rumours”

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Roger Moore

A global crisis and a lot of international leaders, lost in the woods — literally — at a conference to tackle that crisis. Looks intriguing. Three credited directors including Guy Maddin and “Green Fog” siblings Galen and Evan Johnson bring … Continue reading →

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