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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: Hope for a greener future in “2040”

A filmmaker creates an imaginary letter to his daughter in dreaming of a world where best current practices and technology are applied to solve climate change in “2040,” an almost tearfully optimistic take on a subject that has long lived … Continue reading

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Warner Brothers offers free rentals of “Just Mercy,” a little movie night racial reconciliation

The idea is that “Just!Mercy” free rentals is that they “encourage “systemic racism” education.” https://t.co/OmG4M46qKe https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1267823593322213376?s=20

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Book Review — “Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge”

Is there anything we don’t know about Carrie Fisher’s life, thanks to her own decades of “over-sharing,” in print, in interviews and on stage? Sure there is. And Sheila Weller’s all-forgiving portrait of the screen icon, daughter of Hollywood royalty, … Continue reading

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Spike Lee’s “Three Brothers”

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Movie Review: Can Kevin James resist the fury of “Becky?”

Hell hath no fury like a 13-year-old girl scorned. Or crossed. Or given a nickname she’s outgrown. Or God forbid, one who’s lost her mother, seen her father tortured and witnessed unspeakable cruelty to her DOG at the hands of … Continue reading

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Netflixable? “Intuition (La Corazonada)”

The myriad twists upon turns in the finale might convince you otherwise, but “Intuition (La Corazonada)” has been an eye-rollingly formulaic police procedural up to that point. Savvy viewers have stayed with it only because it’s from the same director, … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Electric racing hits the big time, “And We Go Green”

The roar of the engines is akin to the whine of a vacuum cleaner — not ear-piercing, but high-pitched. And the only smoke you see on the streets of the cities where Formula E races are run — Zurich to … Continue reading

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Drew and ScarJo, “Zoes” and stunt queens answer the “BOSS BITCH FIGHT CHALLENGE”

Yeah I’m late getting to this. Fun though.

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Movie Preview: Seeing the future at your own “V O L I T I O N”

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So “The Wretched” is owning the box office. Go figure.

A middling indie horror thriller, thanks to closed cinemas and open drive-ins, is making box offce history. “The Wretched” is breaking box office records thanks to its drive-in movie theater run, per Variety. https://t.co/RP9cuqurTs https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1266844332486569984?s=20

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