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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

Netflixable? Swedish Law Student attempts “An Honest Life” among Anarchists

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Young Simon learns the Latin phrase “Ex Liga Libertas,” “from the law comes freedom,” on his first day at law school in Lund, Sweden. But hanging out with anarchists, listening to their “always be drunk” Baudelaire rules for living and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jamie Lee and Woody and Emma Mackey in James L. Brooks’ “Ella McCay

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brit Emma Mackey of “Barbie” and “Death on the Nile” has the title role, a 34 year old governor with family issues. Kumail Nanjiani, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis and Woody Harrelson flesh out an all-star cast. Julie Kavner narrates, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Denzel and Spike do Kurosawa –“Highest 2 Lowest”

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Jeffrey Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Wendell Pierce, Rick Fox and Ice Spice also star in Spike Lee’s version of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” the third take on that 1963 ransom script, this one set in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Father seeks Justice and Answers about his Murdered Child — “Barron’s Cove”

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Screenwriter Evan Ari Kelman wrote a script — “Barron’s Cove” — that made “The Black List,” a survey of studio folks who vote on the “most liked” unproduced scripts they’ve read in a given year. In eventually making the sale … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” and how a TV host Changed America

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

He wasn’t a natural “performer.” Ed Sullivan had a face made for radio and voice best appreciated in print, where he’d gained fame as a Broadway columnist and sportswriter. Stiff, later somewhat stooped, with odd vocal cadences and a fear … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Hedge your bets, “Kill the Jockey”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart gives off strong Roberto Benigni energy in the surreal, or at least wildly eccentric “Kill the Jockey.” His haircut and slight jockey’s build makes the physical resemblance land, even if the character has relatively … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Rami Malek, Michael Shannon and John Slattery judge Russell Crowe at “Nuremburg”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Landing the now-burly Russell Crowe to play Nazi leader, art plunderer and Luftwaffe blunderer Hermann Goering s quite a coup. He’s joined by fellow Oscar winner Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, “Mad Men” co-star John Slattery and Lotte Verbeek, Richard E. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: An immigrant’s unlikely romance with a yokel new to New York — “Preparation for the Next Life”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Romance with a dash of “You’ll be deported” thrown in. Sebiye Behtiyar stars, with Fred Hechinger as the purehearted hick-from-the-sticks with his own secrets in a film from the director of the Oscar-nominated doc “Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu. Sept … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Social Media’s watchdogs, trapped in an “American Sweatshop” of disturbing videos

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Lili Reinhart stars in this drama about a Youtube/Facebook/Twitter company’s last line of defense against snuff films, grooming perverts and the like. “Remember, we are not censors, we are moderators.” Thus, the company washes its hands of warped “monsters” and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation,” a Writer, a Book, a Legend and a Legacy

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

Natalie Merchant, the singer and songwriter of “Hey Jack Kerouac” among other hits, thinks that one reads and is swept up by his novel “On the Road” when young because “You’re kid of wired for it in adolescence.” The actor, … Continue reading →

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