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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 Preview: Vince Vaughn scripts a little Holiday Vulgarity — “Christmas with the Campbells”

Brittany Snow and Justin Long, Alex Moffat and Julia Duffy, George Wendt and a lot of off-color jokes decorate this Dec. 2 release.

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Netflixable? Lindsay Lohan is “Falling for Christmas,” and staging a comeback?

Most everybody had that moment when they just gave up on Lindsay Lohan. The scandals, the tsunami of gossip, the poor choices off screen and on, few actresses handled the transition from child starlet to adult attention magnet more poorly. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Russell Crowe shows off his “Poker Face” in this Aussie thriller

Every movie opens with a world of possibilities and steadily, one by one, closes off those directions it might take. A good film is one that presents promising options, picks a more intriguing and perhaps less expected one, and maybe … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Venezuela’s bid for an Oscar — “The Box (La Caja)”

The new film from award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas is a lean, quiet and disturbing parable about global capitalism as it is practiced in much of the Third World. With “The Box” (“La Caja”), the director of “From Afar” pulls … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Momoa gets a new “Willie Boy” story made — “The Last Manhunt”

“Aquaman” and “Dune” hunk Jason Momoa figures prominently in the advertising for “The Last Manhunt.” He’s in just three or four scenes in it, but he co-wrote the story, so fair enough. And he’s the one who got this new … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren return to TV — “1923”

It’s the”Yellowstone” origin series. Paramount+ cannily cashed I’m on Kevin Costner’s star power among over 50s, and now they’ve talked their Indiana Jones into tackling this prequel, set in…”1923.”

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Movie Preview: Olivia Colman takes a taxi that turns into a “Joyride”

A woman with a baby, an under-age car thief…Dec. 23 in limited release.

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Movie Review: Sisters and their Mom hide in the “Shadows” after the Apocalypse

As tales of a family holed up after an apocalypse go, “Shadows” isn’t particularly bad. Carlo Lavagna’s thriller has a decent sense of isolation and a time-tested source of conflict. But the director of “Ariana” commits two cardinal sins in … Continue reading →

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Daniel Craig shakes his groove thing in a Taika Waititi vodka commercial

Fun, flamboyant enough to remind us of all the gossipy speculation that used to follow him around, and cool. Because that’s one part of his image Daniel Craig won’t want to shed.

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Netflixable? A little girl might be a menace, or a victim, living life inside “The Chalk Line”

When you boil a thriller down to the bare essentials, you realize just how many of them get by on one killer gimmick. Jimmy Stewart, busted leg, trapped in his apartment watching a murder and cover-up through his “Rear Window” … Continue reading →

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