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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 Review: A Treasure Trove of Secrets are concealed via a “Black Bag”

You don’t see men in turtlenecks anymore. They mostly turn up in spy thrillers, these days — gloomy, conspiratorial pictures with a fall, wintry or too-early spring setting, scripted to match the Cold War that passed and the chilly one … Continue reading

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Something appears “off”about this showing of “Novocaine”

It’s slow enough without a ten minute delay due to projector download issues. Two credited directors? Which one was responsible for the pacing? The bits between the torture, no-pain but blood and burns and broken bones and bullet wound fights … Continue reading

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Filmgoing in S. Fla is about to Get More Fascist

“And the Oscar (for Best Documentary Feature) goes to, ‘No Other Land,’” a Palestinian/Israeli project with Palestinian and Norwegian producers. It’s another documentary doing what American media in particular have avoided, reporting on Israel’s brutal land-grabbing practices by focusing on … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A Nasty Norwegian Goof on The Brothers Grimm — “The Ugly Stepsister”

IFC/Shudder has this one, whose trailer is worth a grim grin or two, slated for April 18 release.

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Movie Review: Prospective Parents Olsen and Patel quake at “The Assessment” by Alicia Vikander

“The Assessment” is smart and sinister sci-fi of “The Handmaids Tale” school, a striking, minimalist parable about humanity’s failings in facing an inhumane future. A geographically and architecturally stark setting hosts a grim lecture on family, population and the psychology … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Gambling, Same Sex Attraction “On Swift Horses”

Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter and Daisy Edgar-Jones head the cast of this adaptation of the Shannon Pufahl novel. Edgar-Jones and Poulter play a married couple upended by the risky business his brother brings to their lives and relationships. April 25, … Continue reading

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Series Preview: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn and grand theft of the rich and entitled — “Your Friends Neighbor’s”

Hamm’s a high roller who hits the wall and resorts to stealing from his well heeled “Friends & Neighbors.” Possibilities? April 11, this series hits Apple TV+.

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Movie Preview: “Lilies Not For Me,” a dark, period piece same sex romance

The bad old days for being gay included institutionalization, treatments and the search for a “cure.” This period piece comes from the producers of “Call Me By Your Name,” with Finn O’Shea and Robert Aramayo as the young lovers, and … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Master Documentarian Errol Morris takes on Manson’s Motives and MO — “Chaos: The Manson Murders”

Over fifty years after the Charles Manson/Tate-LaBianca murders, the “Helter Skelter” slaughter continues to entice and challenge the American psyche. With all the books, all the films and TV miniseries about it, with even Quentin Tarantino weighing in with a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A boy’s “Camera” captures an Elegy to Age and a Dying Fishing Town

“Camera” is an indie ode to taking photographs on celluloid wrapped around a poignant coming of age story set in a fishing town that’s going down — emptying out and dying of old age. It’s right in the wheelhouse of … Continue reading

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