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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

Movie Preview: A “mail order best friend?” Hire “The Exchange” student!

Look for this no-name-stars comedy July 30.

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Movie Review: A unicorn of a thriller, a GOOD Megan Fox movie — “Till Death”

Well, knock me over and take my movie reviewing license for a year. A good Megan Fox movie? Will wonders never cease? Just this week, the long-ago flash in the cinematic pan was desperately floating “date Angelina Jolie” suggestions as … Continue reading

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Movie Review: It’s Ladies’ Night when “Black Widow” sets out for revenge

The effect is more jarring than subtle, and it instantly sets “Black Widow” apart from your average Marvel comic book action movie. We aren’t watching digital superheroes brawl in a blur of digital effects, digital backgrounds and the like. There’s … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Beware the black-eyed kids who demand “Let Us In”

A pretty bad horror comedy briefly takes a turn for the better when its biggest “name” makes his “star entrance.” “Let Us In” is advertised as a “Candyman/Slenderman” take on the “black-eyed kids” urban legend — pale, otherworldly children and … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Will real kids go for a digital “Clifford the Big Red Dog?”

The technical approach to this one has me intrigued. Might this appeal to the tiny the target audience? I think it might. September 17 we find out. https://youtu.be/4zH5iYM4wJo

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Next screening? “Black Widow,” at Long Last Scarlett

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Netflixable? “The House of Flowers: The Movie” tries to wrap up a popular series

“The House of Flowers: The Movie,” might have been a sequel that’s a fun introduction to the ground-breaking Netflix series about a big, affluent and very dysfunctional Mexico City family that owns a flower shop and a gay cabaret both … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “The girl with the deaf family” of fishermen sings — “Coda”

This one has the makings of the year’s biggest crowd pleaser, with Oscar winner Marlee Matlin as the mom, Emilia Jones as the New England fishing family daughter who loves to sing and — of all people — Eugenio Derbez … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Heart Transplant Decisions are up to “The God Committee”

One quick way to depress yourself about the state of ethics in medicine is to Google the phase “organ donation scandal.” Germany to China, Bulgaria to India, this life-and-death access to transplantable organs has proven as easy to corrupt as … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Drugs, old flame and crime stir things up “Downeast”

This looks good, and “Downeast,” a festival favorite, opens July 13.

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