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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 Review: “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”

It’s not everything you could have hoped for, but for a fan, the final Indiana Jones movie tips the scale as “not bad, not bad at all.” A film with exhillerating action beats, well-cast villains, fan service in the form … Continue reading →

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Today’s DVD Donation?”A Radiant Girl” comes to Oviedo Public Library

Oviedo, Florida can sample a different sort of Holocaust story in this fictional tale of a Jewish teen so deep into the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd and the promise of the limelight that she minimizes … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Hamm and Fey ponder the Murders of “Maggie Moore(s)”

The exciting, clever bang-up finale to “Maggie Moore(s)” rather softens the disappointing blow that this off-key dark comedy’s first 90 minutes have delivered. I’m not saying that makes the film worth watching, but it makes this Jon Hamm and Tina … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Dick Powell’s got to choose between Jane Wyatt and Lizabeth Scott — “Pitfall” (1948)

Yes, a film buff can get his or her hands on every Bogart, Alan Ladd and John Garfield film noir in an economical amount of time. But it seems like there’s always another Dick Powell outing that you’ve passed-over, missed, … Continue reading →

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Glenda Jackson: 1936-2023, always “A Touch of Class”

Two-time Oscar winner, former member of Parliament, grande dame of the stage, the small screen and the big one, Glenda Jackson was one of a kind. She lived 87 years, most of them bathed in glory. Tough, flinty, a British … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Gainsbourg and Mikhaël Hers invite us to join them as “The Passengers of the Night”

The journey isn’t epic, and it doesn’t cover a great distance — emotionally or geographically. But Mikhaël Hers’ latest film, set entirely in the XVth arrondisement of Paris and taking place over just under ten years, shows us the little … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Can “Elio,” the Alien Encounter Comedy, get Pixar Back on Track?

A little one-eyed boy whose Mom works with…NORAD? The first guy you think of when aliens say, “Bring us your LEADER.”

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Movie Review: A Troubled Teacher, Troubled Students, a Pretentious Parable from the Pandemic — “Moon Students”

Trying to build a lockdown drama around “What we learned” during the Pandemic — about outselves, our racial divide, our “privilege” and our empathy — would be a daunting task for anybody. As yet, virtually no one’s quite gotten their … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “The Childe” hunts for his Korean Dad in the Philippines

Kim Seon-Ho stars in this Park Hoon-Jung action pic from KPop Land June 30 is when we see it in theaters.

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Movie Preview: Nic Cage teaches Joel Kinnaman “Sympathy for the Devil”

Cage at his Cagiest, a “Collateral” plot, a July 28 release.

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