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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

Movie Preview: A 1980s effort to comically restart The Peloponnesian War – “A Spartan Dream”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ’80s period piece with a dollop of Greco American whimsy? Cute. And way before Gerry Butler made “This is SPARTA” a great rallying cry and punchline. Aug.15.

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Netflixable? Tyler Perry’s Back in Drag for “Madea’s Destination Wedding”

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

You just know that what few conditions Netflix probably had in the big fat contract it gave the prolific Tyler Perry, one of them was “Give us a Madea movie every now and then.” Because even if his hilariously outspoken … Continue reading →

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The Unheeded Climate Warnings of James Burke’s “After the Warming” (1989)

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

The record-warm winters, the baking hot summers — some dry, others filled with historic floods from “extraordinary rain events” — have a lot of people ready to lecture each other on when these “just as predicted” consequences of climat change … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Dutch Duo are on the case as “Almost Cops”

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Dutch word for “buddy picture” is “vriendenfilm.” They take their shot at the genre with a cop/buddy action comedy, “Almost Cops,” whose title in Dutch is “Bad Boas,” a cute pun. That’s funnier than anything in this stunningly unsurprising … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What horrors await the chopper crash survivor from “The Occupant?”

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Ella Balinska stars, Hugo Keijzer directs, and they cut a damned creepy trailer out of it.

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Documentary Review — “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex”

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Seems like we’ve just about had enough time to forget singer-songwriter-provocateur Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, when along comes another reminder that “Oh yeah, he was a big deal.” All it takes is a Mitsubishi sports car commercial, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Gunn takes his shot at “Superman”

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Not using a “real” dog as Krypto, the superdog, was as understandable as it was unfortunate. James Gunn’s take on “Superman” has a CGI version of a dog he’s owned as an antic, overeager but always-hits-his-mark digital sidekick. It’s got … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: Remembering a “Twentieth Century Boy” and “Angel headed Hipster”  Marc Bolan of T. Rex

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Bang a gong, get it on, Groovers. August 8.

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Series Preview: Jason Momoa unites the Hawaiian Islands — “Chief of War”

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison also headline eve of first contact with The West story of Hawaii’s various islands and tribes at war, with Momoa the baddest of the badasses ready to unite them. They need to unite, because the … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Eric Bana and Sam Neill are Park Rangers unraveling a mystery — “Untamed”

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

A missing person case in parkland that starts to look like murder, a lot of suspicions and superticions, characters, agendas and perils are faced by our intrepid crew (Lily Santiago is also in uniform). Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Randall and Taylor … Continue reading →

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