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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

Documentary Review: Vatican City priests and seminarians compete on the soccer pitch in “The Holy Game”

“The Holy Game” sets out to give the Catholic Church a little image burnishing by showing how its stages a civil, sportsmanlike soccer matches among the various seminaries and schools of Rome, in and around Vatican City. It’s called The … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? An Indonesian lad looking for Mom in New York — “Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens” (or “Ali & the Queens”)

Here’s a light Indonesian dramedy about a teen who comes to New York to find the Mom who left him back in Jakarta over a dozen years before. Yes, it’s a “fish out of water” comedy, after a fashion. And … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: In Atlanta, a couple discovers “Karen” is real

A little quickie exploitation flick — timely,  starring Taryn Manning, Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burkeand and set for…BET?

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Movie Preview: It’s been Jamie Lee’s universe all along — “Halloween Kills”

Don’t Fear the Reaper, chillun.

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Documentary Review — “Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide” celebrates a pop “graffiti art scene” survivor

One of the last moments of the documentary “Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide,” has the artist revisiting huge, fanciful and playful painting that gives the film its title. He goes with his daughter, Malia, who co-directed the film, to see … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: If only they’d remembered Harvey Keitel is “Lansky”

The dying old mobster wants to set the record “straight,” give us “the real story,” one more time in “Lansky,” the latest version of the “mob accountant” who allegedly died with hundreds of millions of dollars that nobody ever found. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “feminist fable?” “Scales”

This sci fi drama opens July 9.

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Movie Preview: Broadbent, Mirren and a painting of “The Duke” of Wellington by Goya

A true story comedy with built in whimsy, tragedy, protest and charm, this looks so cute you want to pinch its cheeks.

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Movie Preview: Marvel’s martial arts superhero fantasy “Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings

Will this make Simu Liu a big star? This opens Sept. 3.

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Netflixable? Well, it seemed “Good on Paper”

Comic, writer and actress Iliza Shlesinger once was sued for turning away men at a show she’d labeled and limited to “for women only.” So we know where she’s coming from, playing a stand-up who finally gets that TV deal … Continue reading →

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