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About Roger Moore

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: “A Nanny’s Revenge”

There’s a lot to sort out and take in from this trailer to what’s obviously a B/C movie thriller, coming from Quiver. Some recognizable faces — Laurie Fortier of “The Walking Dead,” “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday” and decades … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Mean Girls,” back with a Vengeance and a lot of Mean Songs

Those “Mean Girls” are back, still lording over North Shore High, still cruel and cutting as only high school girls can be, still trying to make “fetch” a thing. Tina Fey‘s greatest girl-on-girl teen take-down returns in triumph, a sometimes … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastian test their “Mother’s Instinct”

Idyllic 1950s lives and child-rearing, an accident and “blame” and “guilt” tear apart two friends and neighbors and mothers. Two Oscar winners go toe-to-toe — literally. Looks chilling.

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Classic Film Review: The ’70s at their most cynical — “The Parallax View” (1974) turns 50

America’s penchant for conspiracy theories can be traced back to the nation’s founding. And as recent events confirm, our thirst for embracing ideas that unseen forces and assorted nefarious boogeymen are pulling the political strings and killing those who might … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Trippy, indulgent nonsense should make this filmmaker “Reflect” on everywhere she went wrong

“Reflect” is a “find yourself” odyssey about five 30ish Angelinas who travel to Sedona, Arizona, for a spiritual/self-actualizing “obstacle course” weekend in a place the Tarot-card-reades/Astrology-believer/crystal-consultants of Flakey America consider a spiritual vortex. Writer-director-star Dana Kippel might be exploring the … Continue reading

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It’s “Beekeeper” night, you know the rules

We don’t shave for J. Stay movies, right mate? Unless it’s our scalp. We confine the chatter to a low Cockney growl. We take our tea with honey with because that’s the way Jason Statham LIKES IT and “it’s flammable,” … Continue reading

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Netflixable? New Lebanese parents battle over a suite, class, family and rules in “C-Section”

Director David Oryan and screenwriters Isaac Fahed and Doris Saba reached for sentimental, low-hanging fruit in their Lebanese childbirth dramedy “C-Section.” And every now and then, they got their hands on a sweet fig or a tart tangerine. But this … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A slo-mo Keno hustle, “Double Down South”

The latest film from the Oscar-winning writer of “Dead Poet’s Society” is a sordid, torpid tale of violence and revenge set against the pulse-pounding (cough cough) sport of keno-pool, that oddball boardgame variation of billiards. “Double Down South” is a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Sci-fi that Wrestles with Many an Existential “Foe”

“Foe,” based on a novel by Iain Reid, is a dreamy and forlorn science fiction parable about the evolving nature of personality, the imperamence of relationships and the limits of science and technology. Set in a very near climate changed … Continue reading

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An Oscar winning Icon and an Actor Having Another “Moment” Turns 60 today

It’s taken a lot of intestinal fortitude to remain a Nic Cage Completist over the years. An Oscar winner for “Leaving Las Vegas,” great in films all over the spectrum — from “Raising Arizona” and “Peggy Sue Got Married” to … Continue reading

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