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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

Classic Film Review: The Duke, Quakers and the Original “Angel and the Badman” (1947)

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

John Wayne was on the cusp of his career peak when he struck off on his own and produced and starred in “Angel and the Badman,” a project written and directed by James Edward Grant, who’d become Wayne’s confidante and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An “Angel and the Badman” in which Tommy Lee Jones plays Neither

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Angel and the Badman” is a remake of a classic John Wayne Western of the 1940s, with Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones in the role of the cagey marshal in this corner of the mythic West and EveryVillain Neal McDonough as … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “El Cid” (1961 — Still a Stiff?

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Roger Moore

Yup. That’s the answer to the rhetorical question posed by that bad-pun headline. Honestly, I’ve never understood any of the adoring or merely “tolerant” reviews of “El Cid,” a corpse of a corpse-on-horseback “history.” Charlton Heston, at his Big Man … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Falling In and Out of Love, “In Spite of Ourselves”

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

It’s become a romance/romantic comedy cliche, that eager, disrobing, slam-your-partner-against-the-wall sex after the first date. And if “In Spite of Ourselves” accomplishes nothing else, at least it sticks a skewer in that “let’s get this out of the way” movie … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Shailene’s on the hunt for the “Unabomber”

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

The difference between “a true story” and “inspired by a true story/true events” is laid bare in “Unabomber,” an account of the tail end of the hunt for mad mail bomber Ted Kaczynski. The heroine, played by Shailene Woodley, is … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Cinema as Seen from the Projection Booth — “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”

Posted on September 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

You probably missed this sprawling, feel-good-about-cinema’s-future Australian documentary “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey” when it made the rounds of film festivals and earned a limited release a couple of years back. Celluloid purists certainly wouldn’t have. Australian projectionist turned doc-maker … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The “Musk” documentary “They” don’t want you to see

Posted on September 26, 2026 by Roger Moore

The oligarchs in charge of Tik Tok, Facebook/Meta, Twitter and Youtube don’t want you to see the movie “Musk.” Hell, the Zuckerberglings don’t even want you to see the TRAILER to this documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, the most … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Haunted Japanese Inn’s Worth Visiting, just “Never After Dark”

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

It’s rare that even a casual horror fan doesn’t greet a new Japanese ghost story with the words, “I LIKE IT already!” Even if the film is made by Tuscon-born one-time Mormon missionary (how he got into Asian culture and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pattinson & Weaver are ready for “Primetime”

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Primetime” is a “heavily fictionalized” account of “Dateline NBC’s” notorious, pedophile-entrapping “To Catch a Predator” series of hidden camera “gotchas” passed off as “reports” in the early 2000s. It’s a film that struggles to condemn and illuminate why TV news … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Brad and his Dog — “Heart of the Beast”

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Heart of the Beast” is a solid, formulaic adventure tale given a lift by leading man Brad Pitt and his connection to the German shepherd his character’s brought to the Alaskan wilderness with him. Uber, who plays Odin the combat … Continue reading →

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