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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

BOX OFFICE: “Weapons” weaponized, “Freakier Friday” brings in the Jamie Lee/Lindsay Lo loyalists

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

These days, when a horror movie hits, it HITS. “Sinners” and “Final Destination” now have a third over-performing horror blockbuster in their 2025 ranks. “Weapons,” the latest from “Barbarian” actor turned director Zack Cregger, is rolling in good reviews and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Siblings Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario find a body in Mom’s Basement, one of the trials of “Adulthood”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Gad plays a screenwriter — “I wrote for two seasons on ‘Blue Bloods’” — who ponders who killed somebody and buried them in the walls of the house he grew up in. His sister is just a tad freaked out … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley head “The Thursday Murder Club”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Those Brits and their OAP murder mystery solvers. Based on a sort of Agatha Christie-lite novel, this looks cute. A couple of Oscar winners and an ex James Bond gives it cachet. Celia Imrie is the “new” recruit to this … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Michael Douglas is a grandpa remembering his colorful past, “Looking Through Water”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

David Morse plays Grandpa’s avid angler dad in these reminiscences, with Michael Stahl David, Ximena Romo, Walter Scobell and Cameron Douglas also on board. This fishing yarn, set in Belize, is a Good Deeds Entertainment release slated to come out … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Clever clever horror, “Weapons,” Son of “Barbarian”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Glancing back at my review of “Barbarian,” the sinister, smart and sometimes funny blend of scary and silly that became actor-turned-writer/director Zack Cregger’s breakout movie a couple of years back, I’m tempted to repeat myself. He got “the simple things” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Jamie Lee and Lindsay reach for a “Freakier Friday”

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s adorable that Jamie Lee Curtis spent some of her Oscar-winner capital rejoining Lindsay Lohan for another round of “Freaky Friday” body-switching hijinx. And it’s grand that Lohan survived her most problematic years and that Netflix brought her career back … Continue reading →

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It is sick sick SICK to open “Freaky Friday” the same day as “Weapons”

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

I’m just saying.

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Series Review: Momoa’s “Shogun” sized epic of Hawai’i’s struggle to unite — “Chief of War”

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jason Momoa had to play “Aquaman” a bunch of times, put in his time in “Dune” and “Fast and Furious” movies and muscle through a season of “Game of Thrones” to build up the clout it took to get “Chief … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Showing “Him” the Horror of Pro Football’s Deal with the Devil

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Marlon Wayans explains the rules, the deal, to Tyriq Withers in this Jordan Peele produced allegory about The Game that Ate Sundays and what it really costs those who play it. “What are you willing to SACRIFICE?” “EVERY-thing!” Take that … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Clooney is a movie star who hits rock bottom…by co-starring with Sandler? — “Jay Kelly”

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Netflix’s Oscar bait this awards season is to pair up Clooney with the biggest cretin they have under contract? Noah Baumbach keeps trying to normalize-elevate mouth-breathing no-talent Adam Sandler. Jim Broadbent, Clooney, Laura Dern — all these damned Oscar winners, … Continue reading →

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