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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: Our End Times Savior Might be Tom Cruise? “Digger”

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well, he saved the cinema, almost single-handedly, after the first COVID wave passed. Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Emma D’Arcy and Aoife Hinds, daughter of Ciaran Hinds, also star in this Alejandro G. Iñárritu thriller. “28 Years Later” meets “Tropic Thunder: … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: An Environmental/Farm Economy Parable from Macedonia — “The Tale of Silyan”

Posted on December 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ancient parable is remembered and acted-out in modern day Macedonia in “The Tale of Silyan,” the latest documentary from the director of the Oscar-nominated “Honeyland.” Writer-director Tamara Kotesvka documents the collapse of her country’s small farm economy and sees … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A South Asian “Hamlet” set in Modern London

Posted on December 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Riz Ahmed stars in this new re-imagining of “Hamlet,” with royal Danish intrigues replaced by South Asian familial strife. We’ve had mob “Macbeths” and Samurai “Lears” and Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell “Much Ados.” “Tempest” has journeyed to “Forbidden Planet,” and on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: What Makes “Marty Supreme?”

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

New York filmmaker Josh Safdie has his fans, and I’ve been one of them at times. At other times? Not so much. He does underbelly-of-the-city stories well. “Good Time” was something of a reinvention of the possibilities of Robert Pattinson. … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: It’s still “Avatar’s” world, “Marty” makes Bank, “Anaconda” strikes and “Song Sung Blue” struggles

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A $64 million post-Christmas, final-weekend of the year take certifies James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” as the final blockbuster of 2025, as it hurtles past the $200 million mark — $214 million taken in by midnight Sunday, reports TheNumbers.com. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Song Sung Blue” Weepin’ in My Popcorn

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sing-along songs are musical comfort food, and any songsmith, singer or singer-songwriter can count him or herself lucky if they stumble into one in the course of a career. Musical biographies are the cinema’s equivalent of such comfort food, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Charlize is the prey and Taron Egerton the “Apex” predator hunting her

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

So this April we can stream a new version of one of the hoariest plots in all of cinema, this one starring big names. It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” time again. Yay.

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Movie Review: Black and Rudd & Co. Learn You Can’t Go “Anaconda” Again

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Three movie stars who have been funny in their pre-dad-bod past and Thandiwe Newton — who’s rarely been called to land laughs — shipped off to Australia to make an action comedy about a supersized snake in the Amazon, a … Continue reading →

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STILL not “a Christmas Movie”

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Roger Moore
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Movie Preview: Before the Video Game, there was the Coach and Color Commentator — Nic Cage is “Madden”

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

David O. Russell got Christian Bale to Al Davis, the gonzo shark in shades owner of the Oakland Raiders, and Nicolas Freakin’ Cage to take the title role in this Thanksgiving 2026 — mid-football season — release. Throw in Sienna … Continue reading →

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