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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 Review: An Impressive Dreamscape and Disappointing Romance — “Daniela Forever”

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Movies have been tied to dreams from the very beginnings of cinema. The storytelling medium lends itself to the interior world of dreaming. And films from “Spellbound” onward have made serious attempts to recreate and interpret the experience of what … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE:  Taylor Swift” goes “Showgirl,” scores a $30 million+ weekend — The Rock’s “Smashing Machine” Smashes his Oscar Hopes

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

A documentary about the making of her album “The Life of a Showgirl” makes Taylor Swift the queen of the box office on the first weekend of October, celebrating the record’s blockbuster release with a box office smash as a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Psycho Killer,” Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

The screenwriter of “Se7en” wrote this thriller, with Georgina Campbell as the huntress and James Preston Rogers in the title role. Palpable “Fargo” meets Fincher vibe in this Gavin Polone thriller. That’s not Malcolm McDowell as the “Elderly Priest.” It … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with the Toucans, Belize

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s no cinema within a five day hike from here. So I’ll just be posting streaming or film fest titles for reviews for the next week or so, as we vacation in the gorgeous rainforest of Belize. Monkeys and Maya … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: US/Japanese Relations, Over a Century of Baseball “Diamond Diplomacy”

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a truth the average American hasn’t done the math on. “Japan has been playing baseball almost as long as the United States.” And whatever the fading state of the National Pastime on this side of the Pacific, in Japan, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pokey Cowpoke Saga takes us “Where the Wind Blows”

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

A chiseled cowboy between jobs and a newly widowed farm wife he takes a message to means a ranch in need of tending and a woman in need of a man around the house in “Where the Wind Blows,” a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: It’s 1981, so “Casey Makes a Mixtape”

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Rush, The Police, Rick Springfield anyone? How can you tell someone you crush on them without a cassette deck? Oct. 14.

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Movie Preview: Cumberbatch is a Dad haunted in his Grief by “The Thing with Feathers”

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Briarcliff has this widowed dad psychological thriller based on Max Porter’s novel “Grief is the Thing With Feathers.” David Thewlis is this father’s all-too-real-tohim feathered beast haunting him. This comes out Oct. 24.

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Documentary Review: Paul Reubens bids a bittersweet good-bye — “Pee Wee as Himself”

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

I once got an angry and wounded piece of hate mail from Judy Rubenfeld, an annoyed  Sarasota, Florida retiree who didn’t appreciate my inclusion of her son’s lowest moment — his arrest in a porno theater string in this hometown … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Emily Bader and Tim Blyth are Mismatched Besties on a Holiday — “People You Meet on Vacation”

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

One’s a homebody, one’s adventure-bound. “Platonic traveling companions” my Aunt. Could be cute. Worth a Netflx peek if nothing else. Jan. 6.

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