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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

Dublin in a single shot?

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“Secret of Kells” isn’t on Netflix? Inexcusable

The perfect finish to a travel day is thus soured by Netflix’s stinginess with its archive. Pity. Amazon it is, then?

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Series Preview: Will Cena’s “Peacemaker” make everybody sign up for HBO Max?

Well, he is the life of the party.

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Movie Preview: Halle Berry gets “Bruised” for Netflix

This Nov. 24 Netflix release has the Oscar winner playing a disgraced MMA fighter who reconnects with a son she gave up for her career A little awards bait in time for awards season?

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Netflixable? Dutch, Germans, Brits and Canadians live through “The Forgotten Battle”

“The Forgotten Battle” is about a postscript to Operation Market Garden, that late World War II gamble by the Allies to free Arnhem, liberate the Netherlands and shorten the war. That’s not “forgotten.” There was a movie about that debacle, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Ron’s Gone Wrong” is “your plastic pal who’s fun to be” with…almost

An animated comedy of mixed messaging, thin humor and indifferent entertainment value, “Ron’s Gone Wrong” still has every chance of winning younger viewers over with its heart. That depends on how much affection kids can summon up for a cute … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bruce Willis and Neal McDonagh face off in “Apex”

The story is another derivation of “The Most Dangerous Game,” people hunting people. Who is the Apex predator and who is the prey? Watch the trailer to this November release to find out.

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Movie Review: A Rose-colored Look at What Made “De Gaulle” the Voice of France

Lambert Wilson, a veteran French character actor with “Sahara” and “The Matrix” franchise credits, looks and sounds enough like the World War II leader and later French president Charles de Gaulle that no strain shows as he acts out the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A News Editor finds evidence of a Big Conspiracy in the “Dashcam” footage

Actor-turned-director Christian Nilsson had a great idea when he set out to do an homage to Brian DePalma’s classic political thriller “Blow Out,” itself a riff on Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow Up,” also a classic. The hook — that something deadly … Continue reading →

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Next Screening? Animated “Ron’s Gone Wrong”

A lad’s new walking talking digital assistant has a few glitches in this cartoon, animated by start up Locksmith Animation Zach Galafianakis, Olivia Colman and Ed Helms are among the voices we hear in this 20th Century Studios release, which … Continue reading →

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