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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: An Italian Girl tastes “La Dolce Vita” era Rome with Movie Stars Lily James and Willem Dafoe

James and Dafoe are joined by Joe Keery and Rachel Sennott in this Italian job build around a Plain Jane played by Rebecca Antonaci. Saverio Costanzo wrote and directed this love letter to the movies and what they used to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Improv Comics Howard, Mohammed and Bloom go “Deep Cover” looking for laughs in London

“Deep Cover” is an exceptionally silly Brit comedy about improv actors lying on the fly as undercover bait for London police. Logic goes out the window early on, with no means of re-entry. And it’s built around Bryce Dallas Howard, … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Ron Howard’s “Eden” gets dropped on Vertical Releasing, dumped on Aug. 22

A Film Fest horror movie that didn’t grab the interest of a major, every cineplex across the country distributor, a major motion picture director whose “Thirteen Lives” didn’t do well, and who might be facing the inevitable fade in influence … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Nick Offerman goes OFF as a cop-hating gun nut, Dennis Quaid’s tracking him — “Sovereign”

“Sovereign” is a movie whose politics have kind of flipped this year, which is why it’s going straight to streaming. A guy who’s got his own interpretation of The Constitution, raising his son to fear, resist and fight back against … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Emma and Jesse and Yorgos Lathimos — “Bugonia”

An awards season (October release) contender, or is The Academy a tad “over” Yorgos Lanthimos? Not likely. “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” still have some currency when fall arrives. Aidas Delbis and Alicia Silverstone also star in this dark comedy/environmental … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “M3GAN 2.0,” an Update Nobody Needed

A tip of the hat to Ivana Sakhno, who gives one of the more convincingly metallic turns as a woman-playing a robot in “M3GAN 2.0,” a killer robot sequel that leans even harder into well-founded AI phobia. She is Maria … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “F1” doesn’t miss a gear, or a trick

“F1” is a shiny, streamlined and perfectly aerodynamic version of an old fashioned star vehicle. The star in this case is Brad Pitt, one of the most popular leading men of his generation. So it’s only natural he and director … Continue reading →

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Documentary Preview: “Shari & LambChop” take another bow

You’ve got to be a certain age to have any idea what this title is about and to remember how big a deal this early children’s TV act was. Coming soon.

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Movie Preview: Channing Tatum is on the lam in plain sight in Charlotte — “Roofman”

A crook who hides out at Toys R Us? Gotta be in Charlotte. Kirsten Dunst, Lakeith Stanfeld and Peter Dinklage are in this true story caper farce from the director of “The Place Beyond the Pines.” Oct. 10

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Netflixable? Baby Ballerina is Slow to Figure Out who the “Bad Influence” in her Life Is

Here’s a sordid little teen-in-trouble tease from Spain that promises threats, sex and violence presented in the most melodramatic situations possible in assorted posh settings decorated by overdressed members of the upper class and underclass. “Bad Influence” is about a … Continue reading →

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