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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

Movie Preview: IFC teases its trailer for “The Rental”

OK, with most theaters closed and major studios pulling everything from their release slate, this has been the Summer of Indie Outfits, none shining more brightly than IFC. “The Wretched” has owned the box office, and “The Trip to Greece” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A couple that couplets, and sings their “Ode to Passion”

“Ode to Passion” — the title bespeaks heightened romance, lofty ambition and poesy. And in Jack Danani’s musical with rhyming dialogue, that’s truth in advertising. There’s something more than a little mad in trying to tell a modern romance, in … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Axone” smells like love in this touching and funny rom-com about racism in India

Migrant lives matter in the Naga-Indian dramedy “Axone,” a tale of what a minority community goes through just to pull off a last minute wedding, and party, In New Dehli. They’re young people who have come to the big city … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Vinnie Jones brings “THE BIG UGLY” to West Virginia

Malcolm McDowell is the big crime boss, Ron Perlman is the resident badass. Looks rough and tumble.

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Documentary Review: BFFs since childhood, transitioning as adults — “Jack & Yaya”

Imagine growing up in working class South Jersey, struggling with your sexuality in  a world of blue collar jobs, gun clubs, plentiful alcohol and classic rock. Imagine realizing that “gay” wasn’t going to cut it for you, that you didn’t … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: What stand-up comic doesn’t have “Daddy Issues?”

Best friend Alice comforts her British stand-up comic pal Henrietta, “Henri,” the heroine of “Daddy Issues,” with one lie. But it’s such whopper that it the whole movie spirals down the drain with it. “Aww, Henri,” she says, “You’re ALWAYS … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if you can survive the view–“Looks that Kill”

Little known cast, daffy fairytale premise, a guy so pretty people drop dead at the sight of him. Did they try to get Timothee Chalamet?

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Movie Preview: “Skyman,” a mockumentary about aliens with “Blair Witch” origins

Dan Myrick, co-director of “The Blair Witch Project” is behind this docu/mocku thriller, headed to a drive in bed you. And me.

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Movie Review: A teenage girl, a VW van, “The Short History of the Long Road”

Once you’ve noticed them — parked after-hours in a big box store parking lot, tucked under a bridge — you can’t stop seeing them. The car, truck or van windows are covered with sun shields, or just cardboard. The windows … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau broods as he makes his “Exit Plan”

The very serious man has stopped in Denmark’s version of Lowe’s, looking for rope. He’s being particular about the strength, as one must be when choosing the right rope for the right job. He’s only got one question of clerk. … Continue reading →

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