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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

Classic Film Review: Renewing “The Commitments” to Irish Soul and Irish Joy (1991)

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

Twas the writer Roddy Doyle who re-introduced the literary world to the concept of “Irish joy.” Sure’twas. His “Barrytown Trilogy” of comic novels in the late ’80s and early ’90s — the self-published sensation “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The … Continue reading →

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June Lockhart — 1925-2025, “Lassie’s” Mom, “Lost in Space”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

I can’t for the life of me remember why some PR firm was trotting “Lassie,” “Lost in Space” and “Petticoat Junction” TV star June Lockhart around in the ’80s. But I was a kid working in public radio in Charlotte, … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The Consequences of Renewing the Nuclear Option — “A House of Dynamite”

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

You expect a movie about the renewed Cold War and its radioactive endgame to be dispiriting, just in that “Here we go again/Been there, barely survived that” sense. But the timing of Kathryn Bigelow’s grim, cautionary and “Don’t come here … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A “Boxcutter” Dreams of his Big Hip Hop Break…in Toronto

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

An aspiring rapper pins all his hopes on a make-or-break meeting with a famous producer at a “secret” party that everybody knows about in “Boxcutter,” an amiable street-life dramedy set on the not-so-mean streets of Toronto. It’s a tale with … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Helmsworth, Halle and Ruffalo, “Crime 101”

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Feb. thriller with at least one Scorsese touch. “Gimme Shelter” underscores this heist picture with Chris Hemsworth as a limo driver who knows muscle cars and famous McQueen crime pictures. Mark Ruffalo’s the cop chasing him. Barry Keoghan’s a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Springsteen” makes “Nebraska” — “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Self-revealing, self-examining, self-mythologizing, self-indulgent and self-destructive, those are all phrases that can apply to Bruce Springsteen’s seminal, uncompromising and defiantly anti-commercial album “Nebraska.” It can’t be called the LP that “made him.” But this critically-acclaimed smash from 1982 underscored the … Continue reading →

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It’s Bruce Springstone Movie time!

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Springsteen? Never hear the name without thinking of this parody. Hope the movie’s epic.

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Classic Film Review: Steinbeck played by MGM Stars in Brownface — “Tortilla Flat”(1942)

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

The lightest of heart and most lightly regarded classic John Steinbeck adaptation, “Tortilla Flat” (1942) came by its “underrated comedy” reputation with the passing years. It’s an ethnic farce by a writer with an eye, ear and empathy for the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Lost Jewelry triggers romance in “The Christmas Ring”

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Christmas Ring” is a new romance novel adaptation starring “One Tree Hill” alumna Jana Kramer and Benjamin Hollingsworth of the aptly-titled Netflix series “Virgin River.” It’s a slow, bloodless romance built on “anticipation” because there’s no conflict, little drama … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Fleeing a Dictatorship via aid from “The Secret Agent”

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

1977 Recife, Brazil. This awards contender (Best International Feature) opens Thanksgiving week in limited release.

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