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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: Bard and Bride lose a Little Boy and a Masterpiece is Inspired —  “Hamnet”

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in this prestige picture/ awards bait from director Chloe Zhao and historical novelist Maggie O’Farrell. Dec. 12.

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Movie Preview: “Nuremberg,” the final British trailer

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Rami and Shannon and Slattery and Russell Freaking Crowe as Hermann Goerring in an Oscar bait Oscar winner studded reminder of what we do to fascists. 

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Movie Review: Louis Mandylor commits another War (Movie) Atrocity — “Prisoner of War”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

The director and star of the most laughably under-researched WWII action pic in ages strikes again with “Prisoner of War,” a Scott Adkins martial arts star vehicle that puts a kickboxing RAF pilot on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Coming of Age in a Slovenian Catholic School — “Little Trouble Girls”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Urška Djukić’s debut feature is about 16 year olds learning about life and love and sex and what not. Looks lovely. And altogether artier than “Catholic Schoolgirls in Trouble,” a trailer you might remember from “Kentucky Fried Movie” from … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Twee Brit Romance with a Bittersweet Taste, “The Ballad of Wallis Island”

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ever so slight and so very, very British, “The Ballad of Wallis Island” passes the time like reading P.G. Wodehouse with a cup of Earl Grey on a rainy autumn afternoon. A couple of supporting players from British TV cooked … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: The “Mr. Scorsese” Saga in Five Parts

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Film buffs idolize him. Film students long to become him. His fellow filmmakers emulate him. Actors long to work with him. And film journalists relish the chance to bask in his presence and find something to ask or say to … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Merrily We Roll Along” Sondheim Song and Dances its way onto screen

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

A filmed stage musical that benefits from casting Daniel Radcliffe as one of the leads, this beloved Stephen Sondheim musical finally earns a big screen release from Sony Pictures Classics and Fathom Entertainment just in time for the holidays (Dec. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bad bad “Primate”

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Young folks party in Hawaii. But that chimp “my mom adopted,” who communicates with his human family? He’s not meant to be a pet. Bad monkey. Bad bad murderously bad CGI monkey. And whatever you do, don’t call this “Primate” … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — Home Movies as Comedy Couples Counseling, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost”

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

They were the hottest comic “double act” of their day. Stiller & Meara were never as hip as Nichols and May, but reliably funny, TV (“family audience”) friendly and just edgy enough to give the live New York studio audiences … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Black Phone 2” gets a (not that) busy signal, “Good Fortune” and “Truth & Treason” pick up spare change

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Black Phone 2” had a middling Thursday night and half-decent Friday, all of which added up toa $10 million+ opening day and a $26.5 million opening weekend. That’s according The Numbers. That topped the 2021 original film’s opening weekend, which … Continue reading →

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