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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

Documentary Review: Indigenous People are the Front Line of Brazil’s Environmental Struggle — “We Are Guardians”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s hard to have much hope that the people of planet Earth will ever have a day of mass enlightenment to the environmental crises scientists and tuned-in politicians and activists have warned us about for decades, and which are plainly … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Man must prove to The State(s) that he’s not who they claim he is — “I’m Not Stiller”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s a German film with a German (Albrecht Schult) playing an American arrested and identified as someone who disappeared after getting caught up in murderous political intrigues. This adaptation of a Max Frisch novel features Paula Beer as the missing/”dead” … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A Nepo Baby singer-songwriter battles the memory of her Pop Legend Dad — “Singing in My Sleep”

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Malin Akerman plays the perfectly credible rock-star widow/baby momma who raised a singer-songwriter (Jessica Belkin of “American Horror Story”) who is in denial about following in her “all he left me was a song” dad’s footsteps, resentful of the “all … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Coming of Age with a Kestrel — “Kes” (1970)

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Kes,” the break-out feature of Ken Loach, is an unblinking, unsentimental coming-of-age tale about a boy and his kestrel. It’s a Yorkshire “Yearling” from one of the greatest “kitchen sink realists” the British cinema produced, and one of the last. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bill Hader voices “The Cat in the Hat”

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

A new animated take — amped up beyond the wildest anarchy Dr. Seuss ever dreamed up, with fart jokes — on one of the most beloved children’s books in English comes our way Feb. 27. The brand is established. It’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Limey Ladies meet by Accident — “Portraits of Dangerous Women”

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

You’d think, from the summery, sunbaked scenery you’d be hearing Aussie accents in this comedy about a car crash that brings three women together. But no, there’s Tara Fitzgerald (“Brassed Off,” “Hear My Song”), Jeany Spark (“Red Light”) and Yasmin … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: The Challenges of Coping as a Non-binary teen — “I Wish You all the Best”

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Corey Fogelmanis, Lena Dunham, Cole Sprouse and Alexandra Daddario star in this adaptation of Mason Deaver’s novel. This is slated for Nov. 7 release.

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Movie Preview: Elle Fanning is an actress wondering what she’s gotten into working for Stellan Skarsgård — “Sentimental Value”

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A November serving of Oscar bait from Neon, Joachim Trier, his “The Worst Person in the World” muse Reinate Reinvse, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning, as an actress who will work for the cranky “genius” filmmaker (Stellan … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Maine Lobsterman can’t escape “The Ghost Trap” of his life

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

A script that leans into melodrama and wildly uneven performances are the undoing of “The Ghost Trap,” an immersive peek into Maine lobstering life and the people who live it. Zak Steiner and others in the cast doing the baiting, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Coping with Dad Bryan Brown’s Dementia in Bruce Beresford’s  “The Travellers”

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Generations of Australian cinema collide and connect in this dramedy starring Luke Bracey and Susie Porter as the adult children of a curmudgeon (Bryan Brown of “Cocktail” and “FX”) coming to grips with his slipping grip on reality. Bracey was … Continue reading →

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