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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 Review: A Young Artist’s “Funny Pages” Dream Might be a Nightmare

It’s entirely possible that the universe was trying to tell Robert something, and he missed the traumatic and obvious sign it gave him in the opening of “Funny Pages.” Robert, played by Daniel Zolghadri, is a cocky, indulged high school … Continue reading →

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Movie preview: Life as a gay Black Marine, facing “The Inspection”

A November release scripted and directed by the man whose story it tells, Elegance Bratton.

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Series Preview: The Last “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” trailer

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A Netflix Data Breach?

This might be something to add to the tsunami of bad to not-that-good news rolling over the dominant streaming service. This morning I was notified by email that Netflix had authorized someone else to change the email address and phone … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Day After Halloween”

Let’s get an early EARLY jump on Halloween by breaking the rules. Let’s put “The Day After Halloween” out in August. Just like “Easter Sunday!” It’s a no budget indie horror comedy that makes “breaking the rules” one of its … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Remember, A24’s “Funny Pages” opens Friday

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Movie Preview: A little bit of Stallone as a superhero “Samaritan”

Friday.

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Movie Review: Cleese and Kingsley, Reed and Rigg, Hoskins and Lumley in a 1998 debacle starring Chris Rea — “Parting Shots”

What’s this then? An “all-star romp” featuring Sir Ben Kingsley, John Cleese, Joanna Lumley and the late Bob Hoskins, Diana Rigg and Oliver Reed? Why’d it never earn a US release? And if not, how did Bobcat Goldthwait see it … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Black and White “cryptozoologists with a Youtube Channel” “Creature Feature” — “Greywood’s Plot”

“Let’s go get famous.” Sept. 16.

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Regal Cinemas takes a long hard look at Bankruptcy

Everything every movie theater on Earth has been doing to try and stave off “going dark” — the upselling of the experience, “reserved seating,” IMAX, RPX and other shake-the-seats sound gimmicks — was kicked right in the teeth by the … Continue reading →

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