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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Netflixable? Crime and Christian Supernaturalism collide in Korea — “Revelations”

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Revelations,” the new thriller from the director of “Train to Busan” and “Peninsula,” has no zombies. But this collision of crime and punishment, Christianity and psychology is as suspenseful and satisfying as any thriller to come our way this year. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Hildebrand and Abel, Cusack and Sorvino peek through the “Fog of War”

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brianna Hildebrand was one of the pretty young players on the periphery of the “Deadpool” franchise, and was featured in Netflix’s “Lucifer.” Jake Abel was in “Supernatural” and played Mike Love in the Brian Wilson biopic “Love & Mercy.” He … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Ed Kemper: The True Story of an American Psycho”

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Ed Kemper” is a serial killer portrait that’s as pitiless as it is artless. This feature film, no doubt inspired by Netflix’s “Mindhunter” series bringing attention to the “other” notorious mass murderer named “Ed” (“The Butcher of Plainfield” Ed Gein … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Kingsley, Mirren and Dance scheme their way across “Pascali’s Island” (1988)

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Roger Moore

The decade after Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for his performance in the title role “Gandhi” was one of the most interesting of his storied, four-Oscar nomination career. He’d been a respected but mostly unknown player on Brit TV for … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “2 Lives in Pittsburgh,” a tale of “coming out”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

Earnest and well-intentioned, Brian Silverman‘s “2 Lives in Pittsburgh” begins with confusion that turns towards compassion before drifting into cloying and finishing up with a hearty “Oh COME on.” Writer, director and co-star Silverman stuffs wrinkles, revelations and pointless complications … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Fatal Finnish Funny Business comes to “Little Siberia”

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Roger Moore

A village pastor finds himself guarding a possibly valuable meteorite, fighting off those who covet it and questioning his faith and his wife — who is pregnant with a baby he’s sure isn’t his — in the dark and daft … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Michael Mann invents ’80s Cinema — “Thief” (1981)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

It’s only in retrospect that we recognize the watershed films, the ones that signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. Michael Mann’s feature film debut “Thief” earned decent enough reviews when it was released in March … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Pedro Pascal, Elizabeth Reaser, Rufus Sewell and a different side of Walton Goggins face “The Uninvited”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

A cocktail party is the setting for this actors’ showcase, featuring 151-credits-and-counting screen veteran Lois Smith as an elderly intruder at a posh and “very important” social/business gathering. Goggins and Reaser play husband and wife, Pascal the resented/envied “guest” and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: What do we make of Alison Brie and Dave Franco “Together” in, um, canine form?

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brie and Franco, married in real life, play a couple drifting apart until something rural and supernatural intervenes. August 1, this romantically werewolfy horror comedy comes out.

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Movie Review: Body Builder is on the Spectrum, Steroided Up and Dangerously Obsessed with his “Magazine Dreams”

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

Labeling Jonathan Majors‘s turn in “Magazine Dreams” “deeply disturbing” is the epitome of understatement. He plays a body builder whose on-the-spectrum awkwardness and his obsession with building his body and competing with it, an obsession augmented with mood-altering steroids, puts … Continue reading →

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