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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

Classic Film Review: Seminal Cinema — The Exquisite “Ju Dou” (1990) is Restored

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

The “Fifth Generation” of alumni of China’s Beijing Film Academy first made their marks at home and abroad with two ’80s films — Chen Kaige’s “Yellow Earth”(1984) and Zhang Yimou’s “Red Sorghum” (1988). The color in their titles was a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Driver, Bialik, Rampling, Cate, Indya and Waits in Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

A great cast adorns this droll holiday film about family from the King of Deadpan, Jim Jarmusch.

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Movie Preview: Resisting the Nazis, weighing “Truth & Treason” in an Angel Studios release

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

The fanbase of Angel Studios lined up around the block for “Sound of Freedom,” a ham-fisted child trafficking “true story” based on the declarations of a soundly discredited “crusader” and starring Mr. “Passion of the Christ,” Jim Caviezel. But the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Emma and Jesse and Yorgos — “Bugonia”

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Radicalized cranks kidnap a corporate queenpin. What? No dancing? Emma always dances for Yorgos Lanthimos! Oct. 24.

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Netflixable? Britain’s Best Join or are Pursued by “The Thursday Murder’s Club”

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s not the silliest idea ever, taking “The Only Murders in the Building” and making the building Downton Abbey. “The Thursday Murders Club” is a lighthearted bit of senior sleuthing that takes a prime cut of Britain’s best and most … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Rami Malek’s a Shrink, Shannon and Slattery Lawyers and Russell Crowe is Goering, on the stand at “Nuremburg”

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

This is the full first trailer to this star-studded November (Awards Season) release from Sony Classics. Looks good. Excellent casting. But as producer turned director James Vanderbilt gave us the lightly-regarded Dan Rather vs. Bush II drama “Truth,” keep your … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Finnish Avenger Goes Hollywood — “Sisu 2: Road to Revenge”

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Stephen Lang is the villain, there’s more CGI to help make the slaughter more graphic and more over the top. Our Finn who’s been wronged turned his attentions from Nazis to Soviets (Same diff?) in this sequel. It’s short — … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What’s it take for plumbers to be “Scared Sh–less?”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Because the world needs a Midnight movie at film festivals all over, a no-budget creature feature with a pun title about turds. Liquid Plumber won’t save us this time. Oct. 3? Here goes.

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Movie Preview: All the best Villains are Brits, “All the Devils are Here”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eddie Marsan and Burn Gorman, actor names made for Heavies. Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse and Rory Kinnear also star in this thriller about hoodlums laying low in Dartmoor. Sept. 18.

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Movie Review: A Junkie’s Daughters Conspire about “What We Hide”

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

“What We Hide” is an engaging but unsurprising melodrama about a broken family and one teen daughter’s desperate, extralegal efforts to salvage what’s left. Their addict mother has died. And rather than “let them separate us,” teen Spider (Mckenna Grace) … Continue reading →

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