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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: A Young Woman “Prime Minister” steers New Zealand Through its Darkest Hours

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s cold comfort for American and international audiences taking in “Prime Minister,” a new documentary about New Zealand’s first female prime minister, the woman who led the country through a horrific mass shooting hate crime, a volcanic erruption, COVID and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Scientific Couple leaves “Our Times” (Nuestros Tiempos) for a More Diverse and Progressive Future

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Time seems to stand still in the Mexican dramedy/romance “Our Times.” Lacking urgency and slow-footed in the extreme, its 90 minutes crawl by as it laboriously makes its points about the sweeping changes in relations between the sexes in culture … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Titus Welliver takes on Joe Hill’s “Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story”

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Last Christmas’s “Nosferatu” remake was a Gothic Robert Eggers creep fest hit. So now there’s a mad dash to see who else can get THEIR version of a vampire tale in front of audiences, with Luc Besson’s “Dracula: A Love … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: An American Girl with “Love Actually” dreams finds London entirely “Too Much”

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

Megan Stalter stars in as the dim American abroad in this series that looks like it could have enough laughs, situations and characters for a 90 minute movie rom-com. Alaa Habib, Richard E. Grant, Emily Ratajkowski, Naomi Watts, Kit Harington, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Demure Charms of Aisling Bea and Billie Lourd unleashed — “And Mrs”

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

“And Mrs” is a bittersweet and offbeat romantic comedy of love and loss and mourning, and a most unexpected star vehicle for unfiltered Irish comic Aisling Bea, nicely paired up with Carrie Fisher’s kid, Billie Lourd. Bea, one of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Ancient China sees a Bloody Martial Arts Brawl over the “Nine Ring Golden Dagger”

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

The first laugh in the martial arts quest thriller “Nine Ring Golden Dagger” might be its title. It was called “Blocking the Horse” in China. And the “dagger” that was mistranslated here is a sword attached to a seven or … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bondage doesn’t necessarily lead to um, a “relationship” — “Oh, Hi!”

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hand cuffs, French toast, “Give me twelve hours to show you” what a “relationship” can be like. Who hasn’t been THERE, right? Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds and David Cross star in this kinky (ish) flirting with … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Florida horrors of Lucid Dreaming — “Eye for an Eye”

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whitney Peak from “Hunger Games” stars, but you will recognize a couple of other faces in this “Sandman is coming for you” thriller.  June 20, theaters and VOD via Vertical Releasing.

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Movie Preview: Ari Aster’s take on America’s waking nightmare — “Eddington”

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, rivals in a Southwestern town riven by America’s poisonous political landscape and the lies that divide us. Emma Stone and Austin Butler also star in this one, which doesn’t exactly promise cinematic “escape” from the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Streisand, O’Neal and Bogdanovich go Looney Tunes Madcap — “What’s Up, Doc?” (1972)

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

A handful of great filmmakers came to the movies as genuine cinema buffs. Truffaut to Tarantino, Godard and Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich to Park Chan Wook all were film fanatics, some even critics who found a path from taking notes and … Continue reading →

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