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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

Documentary Review: “Olympia” celebrates a legend

I’ve interviewed Olympia Dukakis a few times over the years, but let me tell you about catching the Oscar winner, stage legend and TV acting icon on a bad day. She was just recovering from an injury, but had gamely … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “No no NO!” parents give the kids a “Yes Day”

The best moments in the Netflix comedy “Yes Day” don’t involve slapstick — although there’s some of that. They don’t come from the list of scenes that include the big water balloon fight, driving through the car wash with the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Danish Seniors sample more than cuisine when their “Food Club” hits Italy

It’s “Italian for Beginners” for Danish foodies? Who aren’t “beginners?” This looks adorable. And mouth watering. “Food Club” is due out March 19 in the US of A.

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Movie Preview: You know you’ve taken the wrong “journalist” hostage when her nickname’s “Wildcat”

I’m fixing to have a problem with this if it turns out “Krypton’s” Georgina Campbell, in the title role, is a CIA agent masquerading as a journalist. More than a few reporters have been kidnapped and a few killed by … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Pretty in Pink,” aging like ugly fashion

Channel surfing by this title the other night took me back to 1986, when John Hughes was just finishing up an epic run as “Movie Voice of American Teenagers” and Molly Ringwald took her curtain call as The Girl in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: This “Manic Pixie” has a secret and a “Long Weekend” to reveal it

Much respect for writer-director Stephen Basilone for leaning into what any movie fan is thinking after our hero is bowled over by our bubbly heroine in “Long Weekend.” “Are you REAL?” Bart (Finn Wittrock) wants to know of this Force … Continue reading →

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Trevor Noah IS…”The President’s Analyst?”

So tell me what shocking about this pitch. Some Obama speech writer and image manager is scripting a remake of “The President’s Analyst.” That 1960s comically paranoid thriller offered us the phone company as the Big Villains out to Rule … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Can love in “the joint” carry on after parole? “Luz”

“Luz” is a slow, soapy prison romance that, if nothing else, is not quite like any prison and “getting out” picture you’ve ever seen. It comes at Latin machismo from a queer point of view, upending prison and post-prison life … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The locals hear something awful in “The Block Island Sound”

Something’s made the old fisherman sleepwalk. He stares off into space, blacks out, forgets where he’s been or why he took his boat out in the middle of the night. Is he drinking? Has mental illness taken him? Is it … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Rotoscoped Animation Lives! “The Spine of Night”

Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt and Joe Manganiello are among those voicing characters in this dark, violent animated fantasy.

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