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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: “Avengers: Been There, Done That,” aka “Avengers: Doomsday”

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

Dec. 26. Which means youve got a whole year to get worked up over this revival.

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Movie Preview: Mandy Moore has to be “The Breadwinner” as she’s married to Nate Bargatz

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Clean” stand-up comic of the moment Bargatz gets top billing (LOL) in this family-friendly and seemingly dated comedy about role-reversal in “provider” terms in one household in an economy shoved into a death spiral. This could be cute, even if … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Danish Dame goes “Mango” for a Man in Málaga

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Mango” is a tepid Hispano-Danish romance set in and in the hills above the resort city of Málaga on Spain’s celebrated Costa del Sol. Rigidly formulaic and strictly low-heat as far as romances go, I’m guessing you can guess every turn … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Don Johnson REALLY wants what’s in storage “Unit 234”

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s got a “name” or used to be “name” cast, a compact setting, a twisty plot and the director of “Sweet Home Alabama” behind the camera. “Unit 234” has the makings of a gritty B-movie that makes the most of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Our End Times Savior Might be Tom Cruise? “Digger”

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Well, he saved the cinema, almost single-handedly, after the first COVID wave passed. Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Emma D’Arcy and Aoife Hinds, daughter of Ciaran Hinds, also star in this Alejandro G. Iñárritu thriller. “28 Years Later” meets “Tropic Thunder: … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: An Environmental/Farm Economy Parable from Macedonia — “The Tale of Silyan”

Posted on December 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ancient parable is remembered and acted-out in modern day Macedonia in “The Tale of Silyan,” the latest documentary from the director of the Oscar-nominated “Honeyland.” Writer-director Tamara Kotesvka documents the collapse of her country’s small farm economy and sees … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: What Makes “Marty Supreme?”

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

New York filmmaker Josh Safdie has his fans, and I’ve been one of them at times. At other times? Not so much. He does underbelly-of-the-city stories well. “Good Time” was something of a reinvention of the possibilities of Robert Pattinson. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Song Sung Blue” Weepin’ in My Popcorn

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Sing-along songs are musical comfort food, and any songsmith, singer or singer-songwriter can count him or herself lucky if they stumble into one in the course of a career. Musical biographies are the cinema’s equivalent of such comfort food, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Charlize is the prey and Taron Egerton the “Apex” predator hunting her

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

So this April we can stream a new version of one of the hoariest plots in all of cinema, this one starring big names. It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” time again. Yay.

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Movie Review: Black and Rudd & Co. Learn You Can’t Go “Anaconda” Again

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Three movie stars who have been funny in their pre-dad-bod past and Thandiwe Newton — who’s rarely been called to land laughs — shipped off to Australia to make an action comedy about a supersized snake in the Amazon, a … Continue reading →

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