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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

Preview, Everybody tries to help an addict pick up “A Million Little Pieces”

Charlie Hunnam, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Billy Bob, Juliette Lewis, and a lot of fantastic visualizations of an addict’s halucinations drive this drama. Billy Bob stands out in the trailer, because that’s what he’s good at.  

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Preview, “I Still Believe” has a hint of “Faith Based Star is Born” about it

And a touch of “A Walk to Remember.”

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Movie Review: Faith-based “Overcomer” never overcomes a bad title

As I write this, there are half a dozen reviews of “Overcomer” posted on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, even fewer on Metacritic. And I get it. Whatever you say about the films in terms of writing, directing, acting … Continue reading

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Movie Review: For a soap star, life catches up, “Before You Know It”

There isn’t much to “Before You Know It,” but where there is I have to say I absolutely adored. It’s a sisters comedy, one of those “walking and talking New York” tales of mismatched siblings, dysfunctional parents, and the frothy, … Continue reading

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Preview, upcoming Disney+ streaming service pulls out all the stops–“The Mandalorian” and Werner Herzog

“Star Wars” finally has the Germanic villain/film icon it has always needed, the great Werner Herzog, a directing icon at the Larry Olivier anything for a buck stage of his near retirement. Nov. 12 Disney takes on Netflix with stuff … Continue reading

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Peak Goldblum? “The World According to Jeff Goldblum” is coming, and here’s a taste

The late wit and novelist Gore Vidal once said “Never pass up an opportunity to have sex, or appear on television.” To that I would add “or spend time, in any way, with Jeff Goldblum.” I have interviewed him several … Continue reading

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Preview, Disney’s “live action”…ish “Lady and the Tramp”

Streaming later this year. So that’s a plus. It never ends.

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Movie Review: “Rosie” is the apple of Roddy Doyle’s Irish Eye

The three saddest words we hear off the screen this year just might be, “Jesus, John Paul.” Sarah Greene speaks them, playing a Dublin mother of four, in “Rosie,” a heartbreaking, underplayed and intensely gripping Roddy Doyle story about modern … Continue reading

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Preview, “The Great Alaskan Race” remembers the birth of the Iditarod

Born out of a diptheria outbreak, inspiration for the animated “Balto,” and now this one. Oct. 25 it hits theaters.

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Movie Review: Liam Hemsworth is a money-launderer with amnesia — “Killerman”

An insanely violent C-movie thriller starring a guy in the headlines for divorcing Miley Cyrus? A classic “late August movie,” that’s “Killerman.” It’s about a money launderer (Liam Hemsworth) who rides around New York in a Lincoln Town Car, buying … Continue reading

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