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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

Find “Tenet” on an IMAX theater screen near you

This, from Exhibitor Relations. Go to the link, find your IMAX.“Every single IMAX theater playing ‘Tenet’ in the US” https://t.co/YAYK0jSrFm via @thisisinsider https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1301583860988166145?s=20

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Movie Review: “Range Runners” find violence on the Appalachian Trail

Mel’s been tested all her life. It started with her Daddy (Carl Clemons-Hopkins) on the track. “You body always fights against you,” he’d growl, as teen Mel whimpered in pain. “It doesn’t tell you what to do!” She ran and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Disney’s “Mulan,” sans music or laughs

“Beauty and the Beast” remains the gold standard for Disney remaking its animated classics as live action, or “looks like live action” (“The Lion King”) feature films. Stripped of the singing and the comedy that made the animated “Mulan” the … Continue reading →

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The second trailer for James Bond, “No Time to Die”

Bad guys everywhere…

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Netflixable? A star-sprinkled cast, a nail-biter ending, one bizarre movie — “Strange But True

The edge-of-your-seat climax to “Strange But True” may trick you, for a moment or two, into forgetting how so much of what came before it seems as if it was from another movie. One doesn’t have to see “based on … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: “Raw Deal” (1948) is as “noir” as Film Noir Gets

I dropped in on the third act of this one on Movies! the other night and was so blown away by the shadows, fog and downbeat tone that I got up at 4 in the morning to watch the whole … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Up on the Glass,” down in the (thriller) dumps

The reunion of the old Dartmouth classmates starts with flattery. Lots of it. “You see through us…You never fail to impress…I’m not as smart as you.” And let’s not forget my favorite. “I envy your hands.” I mean, I’m a … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Freaks: You’re One of Us” is a German “X-men” ohne (without) der “X”

Damned considerate of Netflix to trot out this German “X-Men” knockoff just as the latest and perhaps last for a good long while Marvel “X-Men,” “New Mutants” is in theaters. And damned sporting of Netflix not to stream “Freaks: You’re … Continue reading →

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You Were Warned–“Tenet” has a muddy, dialogue drenching sound mix

Yes, I pointed out in my review that actors trying to make themselves heard through masks was a “thing” with Christopher Nolan. Practically a fetish. Yes, there are plenty of other places we can’t hear what the characters are saying … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Sci fi from Neon — “POSSESSOR” the “UNCUT” trailer

Andrea Riseborough stars in this tale of cooperate assassin’s using brain imprint tech to convert associates of their targets into proxy killers. October.

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