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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

Documentary Review: Another “last word” on the JFK assassination, “Truth is the Only Client”

The JFK Assassination Conspiracy Industrial Complex won’t care for “Truth is the Only Client: The Official Investigation of the Murder of John F. Kennedy.” Then again, will anybody watch a documentary defending the Warren Commission’s findings about the Kennedy Assassination? … Continue reading

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Streamable? Disney’s “The LEGO ‘Star Wars’ Holiday Special”

Here’s a laugh we didn’t know we needed right now, a light LEGO lampooning of “Star Wars,” just in time for the holidays. All those jokes you share with your friends when watching the various trilogies in this over-saturated “universe,” … Continue reading

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PREVIEW: Wiest, Streep and Soderbergh — “Let Them All Talk”

A famous writer drags relatives along on a cruise. Agatha Christie? In theaters? On TV? No. HBO.

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Movie Review: Anna Kendrick saves Christmas, because of course she does, as “Noelle”

That little dickens Anna Kendrick already did a Christmas movie. But “Happy Christmas” was a bit more naughty than…you know. So here she is in a genuine Disney Christmas movie for kids, back on Disney+ for the holidays. Did you … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: Older audience continues to show up, horror fans let “Freaky” flop

From Exhibitor Relations, your top five for another weak weekend at the cineplex. “Let Him Go” fell off by just over half, “Freaky” didn’t open at “Unhinged” or “”Let Him Go” levels. And the pandemic is back, worse than ever. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A great setting in search of a scarier tale — “Playhouse”

“Playhouse” is a stylish British ghost story with a great, gloomy Scottish setting, and little else to recommend it. It’s not frightening, rarely suspenseful and never comes close to the harrowing experience audiences have come to expect from horror movies … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: A teen, and already one “tough broad” — “I Am Greta”

There’s a moment, after we’ve seen an hour of the stoic Swedish teen Greta Thunberg start a global climate movement, meet with world leaders and agree to every “selfie” asked of her by fans along the way, when we get … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Thanksgiving is a dish best served uh, slaughtered? “Derelicts”

As the lady once said, “What fresh Hell is this?” For everybody who found the polish, sophistication and gentility of “The Devil’s Rejects” a turn-off, we present “Derelicts,” a little slice of holiday slaughter from the people who brought you… … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Puerto Rico, years after a hurricane’s “Landfall”

There’s no footage of Hurricane Maria’ pounding Puerto Rico back in 2017, back when the storm made landfall and wrecked the island. We don’t see the gas lines, people lining up for water, the months of governmental indifference in San … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “All Joking Aside”

Young woman wants to make it as a stand-up comic, stalks her geezer heckler, “a comedy urban legend” until he agrees to coach her. We all know where “All Joking Aside” is going, basically by the time the opening credits … Continue reading

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