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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

BOX OFFICE: “Him” Underwhelms, “Big Bold Beautiful” bombs, “Demon Slayer” slays by default

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Late September turns out to be a pretty bad time to send a football-bashing body horror thriller out into the world. “Him” stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers and Julia Fox, and is wearing the “producd by Jordan Peele” badge of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Slight Flight of Fantasy Fancy billed as “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pairing up Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell for a big screen fantasy romance doesn’t pay off in “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” a film that has one or two big moments on its road-trip-romantic “journey,” a little digitally augmented “beauty” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Deal with the Devils it takes for “Him” to Make it in Pro Football

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pro football, the movie doctor about to take on the institution over the issue of “Concussion” was famously warned, “owns a day of the week. The same day the Church used to own!” “Him” is a horror movie that takes … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Entrancing “Trains” is a History of Europe through its Rails and Rolling Stock

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Trains,” the new dialogue-free “found footage” documentary by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas, is one of the most original pieces of movie-making you’re likely to run across. Drygas tells a history of Europe through the first half of the 20th … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Dark Night of “La Dolce Vita” — “Finally Dawn”

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Roger Moore

Federico Fellini cast a jaded, bemused eye on the postwar Italian decadence and indulgence with “La Dolce Vita,” a cinema classic about a generation just removed from decades of fascism and war partying, reveling in paparazzo-pursued celebrity and an internationally … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cryptic Creepiness in Cymru (Wales) — “Rabbit Trap”

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Existential musings about the nature of sound, past trauma and childlessness occupy the lovely headspace of “Rabbit Trap,” a quiet and obscurant folk horror tale set in 1970s Wales. Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen (“The Alienist”) co-star as a couple … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn — “Let’s reboot ‘Anaconda'”

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

Here’s a comic lark of a lark, alleged adults remaking “a movie we loved when we were kids.” A remake about making a remake. A Christmas comedy of the “What could go wrong?” variety. Love that cast. But…snakes?

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Movie Preview: Sweeney is “The Housemaid” to Seyfried — Scary

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

A job that’s a dangerous exposure to a family’s ugly secrets is the premise of this Dec. 19 release. That Sydney Sweeney is the hardest working woman in show business. She almost managed a movie a month this year. Pairing … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Looking for Love via a Rich Bachelor in “The Wrong Paris”

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Roger Moore

As obvious as its title and as sexy as an all-gals bull-riding contest, “The Wrong Paris” is a Netflix romance novel of a movie whose creators don’t dishonor The Hallmark Channel Oath. Keep it cute, keep it clean and make … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Can Orlando Bloom “Make Weight” for his Comeback Fight? “The Cut”

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Roger Moore

Just when you think there’s nothing new that can be done with “The Big Fight” picture, “The Cut” comes along and finds all its drama in the preliminaries. The latest film from the director of “Anthropoid” is a fascinating exercise … Continue reading →

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