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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

STILL not “a Christmas Movie”

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Roger Moore
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Movie Preview: Before the Video Game, there was the Coach and Color Commentator — Nic Cage is “Madden”

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Roger Moore

David O. Russell got Christian Bale to Al Davis, the gonzo shark in shades owner of the Oakland Raiders, and Nicolas Freakin’ Cage to take the title role in this Thanksgiving 2026 — mid-football season — release. Throw in Sienna … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Carol Reed’s Mining Country Melodrama — “The Stars Look Down” (1940)

Posted on December 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

A young man’s future is derailed by a callous chancer and a faithless woman and a disaster he foretold and might have prevented is sure to doom many in his small Northumberland mining town in “The Stars Look Down,” the … Continue reading →

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Yeah, Merry Friggin’ Christmas…

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Love to get out and see “Song Sung Blue,” “The Secret Agent” and maybe “Marty Supreme.” Events mahy conspire to delay this binge, but you’ve gotta have goals.

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Netflixable? A Cop and his Shrink learn there’s “A Time for Bravery”

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

A distraught, unstable, rules-breaking “maverick” cop is assigned a new partner to keep his demons at bay? ” I feel like I’m in ‘Lethal Weapon,’” the new partner cracks. “I know, right?” As action comedies go, the Mexican riff on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is our Tour Guide among “We Strangers”

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A hint of the inscrutable can do service to any film in any genre, and it pays off some surprising ways in “We Strangers,” an oddball domestic dramedy about a “domestic” and the dizzy white folks who hire her. Veteran … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Udo Kier is “My Neighbor Adolf”

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

As comedies about Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazis hiding out in South America go, “My Neighbor Adolf” is no “Mr. Kaplan.” One of the last films to star the late Udo Kier, it’s a curious, gentle and downbeat tale about … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Detour” (1945), still as Noir as Film Noir Gets

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“That’s life,” the anti-hero of “Detour” growls in voice-over. “Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.” Hardboiled, archetype-upending and gorgeous in its bare-bones minimalism, “Detour” is quintessential film noir. “The Maltese Falcon” preceded it and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Homer’s “The Odyssey” finally gets the Director — Christopher Nolan — and the Budget it Deserves

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Christopher Nolan and Universal teamed up for the Original (Western Civilization) Epic. Damon and Hathaway, Holland and Lupita and Charlize and Pattinson and Mia Goth and Bernthal and James Remar and Elliot Page and Leguizamo and Samantha Morton are the … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Koreans face Doomsday — “The Great Flood”

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Preppers, survivalists, Rapture fans and doomsday cultists may get a kick out of “The Great Flood,” a downbeat-to-the-point-of-bleak thriller about the End of Human Civilization. A young Korean mother (Kim Da-Mi) carries her six year-old (Kwon Eun-sung) up several flights … Continue reading →

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