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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

Book Review: Jerry Seinfeld lays out his greatest hits — “Is This Anything?”

At his hit TV-show peak and just after, the most interesting things attached to Jerry Seinfeld were products of his wealth — how rich he was, how he could afford that vast and growing car collection, the romantic predicaments he … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Dementia Part II”

Gaslighting or Alzheimer’s? Possessed or worse? A title speaks volumes in this May 21 release.

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Classic Film Review: An Essential French Farce — “The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob” (1973)

You may think you’ve seen every pull-out-all-the-stops, spend all the money, make-a-laugh-a-minute romps the cinema had to offer in the “Mad Mad Mad World,” “Italian Job” ’60s and “Silent Movie” to “1941” ’70s. But if you’ve missed the French farce … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Period Piece Spy Thriller from Zhang Yimou — “Cliff Walkers”

Almost everything the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou touches takes on the feel of an “epic.” So if the director of “House of Flying Daggers,” “The Great Wall,” “Hero” and “Flowers of War” turns his camera towards the Spy Game, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Mortal Kombat,” One More Time

Epic in scale, graphic in violence, the latest attempt to turn the video game “Mortal Kombat” into a movie has the air of “This time we mean business” about it. The effects are state-of-the-art, and a blood-spurting, kid-killing prologue punches … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street”

Any history of TV’s landmark children’s series “Sesame Street” is going to have Muppets and songs, a lot of laughs and a few tears, and every letter of the alphabet — over and over again. Marilyn Agrelo’s warm and sentimental … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: A “star” loses it all, “Welcome Matt”

Agoraphobia is about to be the new…Asperger’s? May 31.

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Movie Review: Fighting the KKK Kannibals of “Death Ranch”

Just so we’re clear, please do NOT pass the ketchup. There’ll be no eating right after “Death Ranch,” and certainly no red meats or anything that comes with French fries. Here’s an old-fashioned grindhouse “splatter” film, with blood and entrails, … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — Remembering “Tiny Tim: King for a Day”

If it wasn’t for Youtube, you’d have a helluva time convincing anybody under the age of 30 that Tiny Tim existed, or even could have existed. Androgynous ahead of his time, with a trilling falsetto that could crack glass, style … Continue reading →

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Tyler Perry to get the Oscar recognition he’s earned — The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

His charitable acts and blasts of largesse are well documented, using his wealth to help, aid and make statements for civil and human rights and simple civility. His efforts particularly stand out during the pandemic, especially in his native Georgia … Continue reading →

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