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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 Review: Baby snatching at the B & B — “The Child Remains”

She’s “an acclaimed reporter,” pregnant at 42 and desperate for a little weekend getaway on her birthday. He’s a younger musician, struggling to keep the dream alive a little longer with fatherhood bearing down on him. Rae (Suzanne ClĂ©ment) has … Continue reading

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Cherokee Wes Studi first Native American to receive Oscar with Lifetime Achievement Award

Well deserved. A great actor and iconic screen presence. Great in Westerns, well-cast as cops, etc. in any tale set in the Desert Southwest or “The Nations,” criminally under-used in other films. I interviewed him when “Last of the Mohicans” … Continue reading

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Christian boycott of Netflix and other producers that say they’re pulling out of Georgia

Faithwire, source of this story, would have you believe it’s an explosive “movement” that is convincing anti abortion conservatives to drop Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus etc The numbers are laughably low to be making that claim. But it’ll be interesting … Continue reading

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Preview, So how down and dirty will “The Quiet One,” the doc about Rolling Stone bassist and cradle robber Bill Wyman, get?

He took notes, photographed and documented the band’s Iives and their career together. June 21, we see what he saw.

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Movie Review: Baldwin finally plays somebody other than Trump in “Framing John DeLorean”

The life of John DeLorean would make a helluva movie. That’s a thesis that opens and closes “Framing John DeLorean,” a new genre-bending docu-drama about the creator of the car immortalized in “Back to the Future.” There were screenplays floating … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Cultures clash in the mild mannered way in “Papi Chulo”

  “Papi Chulo” doesn’t start with much promise. The idea of a wealthy gay Angelino bonding with a Latino laborer he hires to do some painting for him feels cloying, and the situations that spin out of that are generally … Continue reading

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Preview, Brad Pitt goes interstellar in “Ad Astra”

Sci fi from the director of “The Lost City of Z,” due out Sept. 20. It’s a pre Disney purchase Fox film, so the there’s that working against it. The Mouse makes dogs, too. Not like Fox has. We are … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “The Secret Life of Pets 2,” kid-friendlier than ever

“The Secret Life of Pets 2” offers up more giddy giggles for the little kiddies, a dog-wise/cat-savvy comedy that aims squarely at the youngest common denominator — and scores. Parents? Maybe you’ll laugh at the grumpy, seen-it-all shepherd voiced by … Continue reading

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The funniest mistake in “Dark Phoenix” is musical

Jean Grey is in the car with her parents. It’s 1975, a screen title tells us. She’s telepathically bickering over what plays on the car radio. Glen Campbell, or this other song. Because Jean, even at that tender age, can … Continue reading

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Preview, Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story” coming to Netflix

Scorsese is Bob Dylan’s definitive screen biographer. Remember his 2005 “No Direction Home” PBS “American Masters” on the man/the legend? The only epic tours worth remembering were “disasters,” ruinously expensive, epic in intent, unforgettable to those who saw them. Prince’s … Continue reading

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