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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: “The Bob’s Burgers Movie”

“Bob’s Burgers” makes the journey to the big screen, a dozen years into its TV run, its rat-a-tat banter, goofy production numbers and screwball dilemmas faced with doom and ditzy optimism by its chinless-to-a-one animated cast intact. It plays like … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Gosling and Chris Evans follow The Russo Brothers to Netflix for “The Gray Man”

I couldn’t resist. I mean, isn’t it adorable that those digitally sense-dulling action beaters The Russo Brothers, of several utterly forgettable Marvel blockbusters, are being promoted as a brand now? Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha. Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening are “Jerry & Marge Go Large” in this LOTTO comedy

Michael McKean, Rainn Wilson and Larry Wilmore are among the co-stars this June 17 release has to offer. It’s a true story about a mathematical flaw in a particular corner of the lottery, and a math whiz who exploits it. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Widowed Idris and his kids face “Beast”

Sharlto Copley co-stars in this safari-gone-wrong thriller, featuring doting dad Idris Elba struggling to save his kids from a monstrous and ever-so-digital lion. August 19.

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Movie Preview: Vietnamese sci-fi for kids “Maika: The Girl from Another Galaxy”

Well Go USA is putting this Sundance pic in theaters — some theaters anyway — June 3. Looks cute.

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Netflixable? The climactic anti-climax that is “Jackass 4.5”

For everyone who chose not to chance COVID and show up in theaters to make “Jackass Forever” a box-office-boosting hit back in February, I get it. One could get downright sentimental over the idea that these lovable louts literally saved … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Airmen taste forbidden love in the Soviet Bloc — “Firebird”

The Cold War Soviet military provides a high-stakes backdrop for “Firebird,” the true story of a gay romance in a place where homosexuality wasn’t merely shunned and shamed, it was forbidden and persecuted. It’s a policy that returned under the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Earth’s Salvation or Demise Could come from the space station called “Rubikon”

A little IFC Midnight sci Fi horror for you. Coming soon.

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Movie Preview: It’s Gabriel Byrne vs Thomas Jane in Murder at Yellowstone City”

Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Camp and Isaiah Mustafa saddle up — or sit and shoot — in this Western due out June 24.

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Movie Review: Two against the (Swiss) prison system — “Caged Birds”

Switzerland’s “Escape King,” a bourgeois-born career criminal who declared “I like to steal my luxury,” and a sickly, crusading leftist lawyer who fell for him would seem an unlikely pair to hang a story about the pursuit of justice, human … Continue reading →

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