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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

Movie Review: An Austro-Hungarian Aristocrat’s Daughter falls for “The Chambermaid”

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

The last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are the setting of “The Chambermaid,” a same sex/class-crossing romance that blossoms in World War I era Prague. This sumptuous Czech/Slovak co-production, performed in Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian and German, is “Downton Abbey” with … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” see me get old

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody, Dave Franco et al welcoming Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe and Rosamund Pike for this sequel to the 2013 sleeper hit, due out in Nov. Justice Smith is in it, if that seals the deal for you.

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Movie Preview: Dwayne Johnson wears prosthetics as UFC’s “The Smashing Machine”

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

I know it’s an A24 release rolling out Oct. 3, on the cusp of “awards season.” But how does Emily Blunt agree to co-star — again — with Dwayne “The Human Hemorhoid” Johnson without Disney money? An early UFC history … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: It’s 2025 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Kevin Spacey returns from the Wilderness — or Doesn’t — “1780”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

Southern fried accent in Revolutionary War Pennsylvania? That totally tracks. Doesn’t look like much,  but we’ll see, if this isn’t canceled pre release.

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Movie Preview: Blair Witch Myth Marketing Lives! “Weapons”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

This August release is mainly interesting because of the way the “Maybrook Missing” children, who (in the film) dashed out of their homes and into the night at 2:17 pm, is being shallow faked into “reality.” It’s an August 8 … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Melodrama polished to a fine sheen, “Bonjour Tristesse”

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

The serene overheated-via-slow-simmer melodrama “Bonjour Tristesse” leaves its 1950s origins behind in a shimmering new screen adaptation by first-time writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Based on the most famous work of French college girl novelist Françoise Sagan, this tale of privilege, petulant … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Julianne Moore has Milly Alcock, but not sister Meghann Fahy, as one of her “Sirens”

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

A huge estate on a posh island, lots of “followers” who live at the beck and call of a mysterious beauty only her closest associates call “Kiki,” a sister in search of a sibling who “wasn’t there” for their father’s … Continue reading →

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