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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: Remaking Hitchcock with “Coyotes” instead of “Birds?”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Yeah, that’s a reach. This nature-at-its-most-monstrous thriller is played for twisted laughs, with Justin Long and Kate Bosworth as a couple trying to survive a pack’s attack on their privileged lives. Brittany Allen and Norbert Leo Butz also star. October … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson make The Holidays One Big Sing-Along — “Song Sung Blue”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Vietnam Vet Neil Diamond “interpreter” meets his muse, the daughter of a Hudson Brother. A “comeback” for Kate and for “Hustle & Flow” writer-director Craig Brewer? As your friendly neighborhood Scarecrow might put it. “JOY! RAPTURE! This opens Christmas … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Halloween Comedy about Pumpkin-cultivating in Limey Land — “Grow”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Kid friendly, with Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks and Tim McInnerny among the familiar faces in this Fathom Entertainment release set for Oct. 3. Looks very cute, and the director did “Anna and the Apocalypse.” Worth a go, no?

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Movie Preview: Count them. There Must be more than Seven — “Samurai Fury”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Epic much? Oct. 7.

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Movie Review: “The Map that Leads to You,” via Spain, Portugal and Rome

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

A pretty and capable young cast and a grand tour of the sights of Northern Spain and Portugal recommend “The Map that Leads to You,” a sweet nothing of a travelogue with lots of wish fulfillment fantasy about it. Madelyn … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dafoe’s a Rich Tyrant who Celebrates “The Birthday Party”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

There are no billionaires like Greek billionaires, right? Vic Carmen Sonne, Emma Suárez, Elsa Lekakou and Maria Pau Pigem are the women at this “Welcome to my island” oligarch’s “family” and powerful friends birthday party. Joe Cole plays “The Journalist,” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner — “Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

A monsignor is the murder victim in this third Rian Johnson/Daniel Craig whodunnit, with Cailee Spaeny, Thomas Haden Church, Josh O’Connor and Andrew Scott also on board. Craig is plainly having his Best Post Bond Career, I do declare. Nov. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Mads Mikkelsen protects a little girl from “Monsters” real and imagined — “Dust Bunny”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sigourney Weaver and David Dastmalchian also star in this holiday (Dec.) thriller from Bryan Fuller, who scripted a lot of “Star Trek” episodes, and created TV’s “Hannibal” for Mads.

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Movie Review: “Squid Game” Star Brings Swagger to “Yadang: The Snitch”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dirty cops, corrupt prosecutors and tainted politicians collide in “Yadang: The Snitch,” a twisty thriller about how drugs not only kill people, they stain every corner of The State that they touch. The debut feature of Hwang Byeong-guk is built … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink”

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

The thing that instantly dates Rick Goldsmith’s documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” about the Internet, hedge-fund and tycoon-driven death of American newspapers, is the gasping attempt to find something optimistic in the death of the country’s … Continue reading →

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