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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

Bingeworthy? Reese and Kerry are on the nose, and surprising in “Little Fires Everywhere”

You’d be hard pressed to find better examples of “on the nose” casting than having Kerry Washington play a proud, sensual but stand-offish artist and Reese Witherspoon an obnoxiously over-organized control-freak queen of an affluent “planned community.” Add “single mom” … Continue reading →

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Streamable? Mackie, Jackson, Hoult and Long dress up “The Banker”

“The Banker” is a sturdy, entertaining period piece about a little known episode in civil rights history, an effort to open the door to “The American Dream” by a couple of real estate tycoons who took over two banks. The … Continue reading →

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Bingeworthy? “The Virtues”

“The Virtues” is a stylish, visually-arresting four-part British series about adults haunted by the traumas of their youth. Unblinking in its its detail, compellingly-acted, it immerses you in working-class life in Britain and Northern Ireland, life with a healthy dose of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Coogan and Brydon take “The Trip to Greece,” even if you can’t

It’s coming in May. May 20. Rob and Coogan in I guess, a Range Rover that looks like a Kia Soul, covering Greece. And “Grease” in this clip.

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Streamable? In “My Art,” an artist finds inspiration and lots of male attention in the country

  The New York “artist type” is so ingrained in the culture that we don’t need more of a prompt than that phrase to get a mental picture. But it’s not all young, ambitious, pretentious strivers — hipsters from hither … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Brittany Snow and Sam Richardson might be “Hooking Up”

Brittany Snow plays a sex addict/sex columnist who drags a guy she just met on a cross-country “revisit every place I’ve had sex” romp in “Hooking Up.” Which is as crude as it sounds, and a description that works for … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Actresses do the ugly math for “success” in “Tape”

In a semi-seedy New York apartment, an actress  mutters her lines, referring back to the text as she does. “Receive the blood: and when that they are dead, Let me go grind their bones to powder small…” She’s prepping a … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “SCOOB!”

Coming in May, or whenever, the Scooby Doo prequel.

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Idris Elba tests positive for Coronavirus

Idris Elba (@idriselba) Tweeted: This morning I tested positive for Covid 19. I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far but have been isolated since I found out about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and … Continue reading →

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Streamable? Nothing funnier than a “Bad Lucky Goat” in de islands, mon

“Bad Lucky Goat” is funnier and sunnier than any movie that opens with a decapitated goat’s head floating in the Caribbean has any right to be. It’s “Weekend at Bernie’s” with a billy goat — “Weekend at Billy’s” — set … Continue reading →

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