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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

The song Jim Carrey does a wicked dance to in “Sonic the Hedgehog”

Had to look it up. Watch and listen for it in the movie when it opens Valentine’s Day. Impress your friends with your Poppy Family knowledge.

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One Oscar Prediction, and One Prediction Only

Sure, all the “momentum” and most of the pre Oscar predictor awards have gone to Sam Mendes and “1917” as best director and best picture. Well, almost all of them. But as I said last summer, Hollywood loves nothing as … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Sean Hayes, in a dress as “Lazy Susan”

Transgender girl just cannot get and keep a job. Not that she really wants one. Allison Janney and Margot Martindale costar in this bitchy farce.

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Movie preview: Jesse Eisenberg saves the children from Nazis in “Resistance”

French Boy Scouts save children. The most famous scout among them? Marcel Marceau. Did you know the most famous mime in history was with the”Resistance” during WWII? Did you realize that I am posting this on National Boy Scout Day? … Continue reading

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Netflixable? “Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History”

The idea behind “Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History” is to take a “Drunk History” run through the lives of Great African Americans — some famous, many unjustly obscure. They left out the “drunk” part, but the format is the … Continue reading

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Netflixable? “Horse Girl” rides into madness

“Horse Girl” is a candy-colored descent into madness, a lightweight drama that maintains something like suspense as we cringe through a woman’s struggle to just maintain the appearance of “normality” and “sanity.” Alison Brie of dark comedies such as “The … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Will Forte’s ghost farce “Extra Ordinary” is on its way

Will F., taking on a wee bit of Irish brogue just to fit in, y’see, stars in this comedy about ghosts, Satanic rites and a washed-up rock star (Will) who makes his pact with the you know who to come … Continue reading

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Movie Review: So is this “Faith Ba$ed” comedy worth all the Fox-Breitbart furor?

It seems like only yesterday that I was rolling my eyes at a faith-based “comedy” that surrounded its no-name/unfunny stars with famous actors from the big and small screen. OK, it WAS only yesterday. And here we go again, another … Continue reading

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A Black History Month tribute to a forgotten hero of “Star Wars”

Not talking about James Earl Jones or Billy Dee Williams, here. No, this is the marketing whiz who figured out how to market the quirky, pricey Fox release so that it would dominate the summer of ’77. Ashley Boone was … Continue reading

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Book Review: “Sidney Lumet: A Life” of directing “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Verdict,” Twelve Angry Men” and “Network”

  “Network” is one of those movies that I cannot channel surf past without stopping. If I’m lucky, I catch it from the very beginning because like all movies, it casts its spell in the opening moments, this one more … Continue reading

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