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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: Rom-com” with a “time travel” bit — “Long Story Short,” with Rafe Spall and Zahra Newman

Spall’s a guy who “waits” for this and that and Ms. Right and who gets a dose what he might be missing out on, losing a whole year at a time, in this July 2 romance.

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Movie Review: Womanizing Aussie Footballer is chasing women, chasing a dream and “Chasing Comets”

“Chasing Comets” is a damp dishrag of a “footy” comedy from Down Under. It’s about a coulda-woulda womanizing player for the Comets of Wagga Wagga, a small town “so nice they named it twice.” And that’s about as funny as … Continue reading

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Documentary Review — “Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality,” three hours earn an “incomplete”

 The endlessly fascinating figure of artist, provocateur and artistic bon vivant Salvador Dalí has been dissected on film before, but rarely with the detail that “Salvador Dalí : In Search of Immortality” does. It’s a psychological biography, emphasizing the childhood … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: An All Star heist picture — “No Sudden Move”

Don Cheadle and Matt Damon, Benecio del Toro, Ray Liotta and Jon Hamm and Brendan Fraser are among the “Usual Suspects” of this Steven Soderbergh, HBO Max July 1 release.

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Documentary Preview: A murder, and an infamous injustice — “The Phantom”

Texas executing an innocent man while a killer goes free? Color me shocked. This comes out July 2.

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Movie Review: Dad’s dead, and whatever killed him is causing his family “Woe”

Something’s eating at Charlie. He’s working on this house at all hours, sawing and shoveling and whatnot. The phone rings incessantly, but he won’t answer. He’s always popping in his ear buds and tuning out the world. With his sister … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Love is by turns “Sweet and Sour” in this Korean romance

“Sweet and Sour” is a Korean romantic fantasy that isn’t remotely as cute and clever as those who made it seem to think it is. It’s a standard-issue “meet cute” romance about a plump nerd who falls hard for the … Continue reading

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Series Review: A stellar cast decorates Stephen King’s “Lisey’s Story,” which helps

Whatever hardcore Stephen King fans get out of “Lisey’s Story,” with its suggestions of a writer’s supernatural powers and “visions,” haunted childhoods aging into crippling adulthoods and a post-mortem “bool (treasure) hunt” as the last gasp of a great love … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Is it time to finally “call the code” on “M*A*S*H” (1970)?

For years, whenever “M*AS*H,” popped up as I was channel surfing, I’d check to see where we were in the story, and often rewatch a big chunk of it. Robert Altman’s breakthrough film, the one that taught us what “Altmanesque” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: The hunters become the hunted — “Fear”

June 15 this one streams.

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