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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

Series Review: Musicals get a mild mocking in Apple’s “Schmigadoon!”

Let’s assume everybody who’ll stream this — or read a review of it — isn’t a card-carrying musical theater hater. None of that tired “People break into song, that doesn’t happen in ‘real life’” argument that Jerry Seinfeld wore out … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Tel Aviv at its most casual — “Sublet”

“Sublet” is an American in Tel Aviv story, a laid-back travelogue about a travel writer who visits the city for a “five days in” article, and gets more than he bargained — or embracing the local custom — haggled for. … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “The Jesus Music” talks to pioneers in Christian pop, rock and rap

This Oct. 1 release looks like a sort of history lesson in Christian popular music. Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith et al, lots of veterans of the scene speak out here. Interesting timing, considering the way polling and demographic trends … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Italians take a shot at “A Classic Horror Story

Yes, the title over-sells it. “A Classic Horror Story.” WE’LL be the judge of that, thank you. But imagine Sam Raimi taking a shot at an Italian “Midsommar,” and watching a lot of Spaghetti Westerns before starting production. That’s a … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Roadrunner” captures the highs and lows of Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain liked to say he “lucked” his way from “a dead-end dish washing job” in a restaurant “to cook to chef,” and from there to memoirist and TV host. It looked like a charmed life, a bookish wordsmith and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Space Jam: A New Legacy”

So this is what pulling out all the stops looks like. “Space Jam: A New Legacy” is a candy-colored, image-crammed B-ball bauble for the bambinos, children of the kids who flocked to the 1996 hit, which paired-up the Looney Tunes … Continue reading →

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“Space Jam Legacy” time

Ryan Reynolds’ gin? Check. #AMCovercharges4g&t.

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Movie Preview: Got your ticket to “The Last Matinee?”

It’s 1993, and movie going in Montevideo, Uruguay will never be the same. Mierda. Wait they have matinees at night in South America? As if going to the cinema wasn’t scary enough. An August 6 theatrical release, Aug 24 for … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Alicia Vikander, Justin Chon, “American” and not exactly accepted in “Blue Bayou”

A September 17 release that has a whiff of “awards season” about it.

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Movie Review: An Eternally Interminable Afterlife rom-com — “Here After”

“Here After” is a a romance premised on the idea that you can’t get into “heaven” without having a “soul mate.” It is terrible on a lot of levels, a godawful script that was drably-cast and indifferently-directed and passes before … Continue reading →

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