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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

Classic Film Review: James Mason makes his mark in Britain’s “Casablanca” — “Candlelight in Algeria” (1943)

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hollywood won the race to get a drama about the Allied invasion of North Africa into theaters largely due to luck. Warner Brothers bought the rights to an unproduced play written in 1940 that just happened to be set in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bad Manners at a Dinner Party — “The Trouble with Jessica” is that She’s Dead

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

An ever-so-British dinner party goes ever-so-wrong in ever so many British ways in “The Trouble with Jessica,” a dark but twee comedy of manners. The “dark” comes from the suicide of a narcissistic, newly-published author who crashes a gathering of … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Distracted Dad finally connects with his son on “The Dad Quest” to find the kid’s REAL Father

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Dad Quest,” titled “Los Mejor del Mundo” (“The Best in the World”) in Spanish, is a Mexican remake of an Argentinian made-for-Netflix melodrama. That was titled “Hoy se arregla el mundo” (“Today We Fix the World”) and was sentimental … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Garett Hedlund and Brittany Snow star in a darker-than-dark missing son thriller — “Barron’s Cove”

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Hamish Linklater and Stephen Lang also star in this story of a child’s death, a father’s deranged response and a Senator’s son who winds up caught in the crosshairs. Thanks to distributor Well Go USA we find out what really … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Shia LaBeouf works on inmate “Henry Johnson” for David Mamet

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Evan Jonigkeit has the title role, and Chris Bauer is in the supporting cast of this May 9 release. Mamet has stepped into throughout his career, but his recent outspoken turns of phrase and thinking probably explain why this 2:25 … Continue reading →

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Charles Bronson has every year’s Best Earth Day Message

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore
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Movie Review: A Robot Might Provide or Deny “The Last Spark of Hope”

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Almost all science fiction is in the business of world-building, creating a landscape, setting, period in time or even “universe” where the story takes place. Dystopias engage in world-destroying. The Polish thriller “The Last Spark of Hope” manages to serve … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Viola Davis is a (literally) Embattled President trying to Survive “G20”

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

When it comes to action pictures, there’s “So bad that it’s good” and whatever the hell “G20” amounts to. So bad that it’s not godawful? The idea of Oscar winner Viola Davis, aka “The Woman King,” as a two-fisted, combat … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Chloe Sevigny, Claes Bang and Lily McInerny, Coming of Age by the Sea — “Bonjour Tristesse”

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Françoise Sagan’s novel about a teen who makes trouble for Dad (Bang), Dad’s lady (Naïlia Harzoune) and her late mom’s bestie (Sevigny) as a way of showing off she’s 18 and pretty and knows everything. May 2.

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Classic Film Review: Cabot, Sanders and Tierney fight Nazis by Proxy in Africa — “Sundown” (1941)

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Sundown” is a lightly regarded “all-star” action picture that gets lost in the history of that cinematically storied year, 1941. When “Citizen Kane,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “How Green Was My Valley,” “Sullivan’s Travels,””High Sierra,” “The 49th Parallel,” “Sergeant York,” “Meet … Continue reading →

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