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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

Movie Review: Payback’s a B–ch in “Revolver”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Revolver” is a Korean “Payback,” another version of the and the Lee Marvin/John Boorman thriller that’s based on, “Point Blank.” Somebody went to jail, did the time. They get out. They’re owed money. They’re damned sure going to collect it. … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Scarjo & Benicio, Cumberbatch & Cranston, Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenican Scheme”

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

You can tell it’s an Anderson picture within five seconds. The kitschy production design and graphics, the voice over, the Michael Cera/Jeffrey Wright/Rupert-Riz riffs? May 30. Expect to be tickled to death by a tale of oligarchs and terrorists and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Portman and Krasinski, Gleeson and Tucci seek Guy Ritchie’s “Fountain of Youth”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

Seriously? OK. Sure. Note the musical touch, an instrumental of U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” in this trailer. May 25 Apple takes a shot at what looks to be a “National Treasure,” Brendan Fraser “Mummy” kind of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Leslie Nielsen or Liam Neeson, it’s still “The Naked Gun”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

There’s a laugh or two in this trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s reunion with Neeson (“A Million Ways to Die in the West”) for a remake of Leslie Nielsen’s comical triumph. And there’s something fitting in MacFarlane’s “stretch” of putting aged … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? First Love faces the test of “arranged marriage” in “Promised Hearts (Niyala)”

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the best reasons to take the occasional Around the world with Netflix trip is getting the pulse of another culture through its cinema. It’s a great way recognize one’s own biases and Western ideas of “cultural progress” and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Jeffrey Dean Morgan knows Jack Quaid is the least reliable witness in this “Neighborhood Watch”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

An abduction, a “Screw Loose” nobody takes seriously, except as a suspect. April 25.

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Movie Preview: Disney checks back in with “Tron: Ares”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Greta Lee, Jared Leto, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges, of course, star in this super slick looking sci fi updating of the inside gameverse thriller franchise.

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Movie Review: Pascal, Reaser, Sewell and Goggins as Hollywood “types” face their future and their humanity when they meet “The Uninvited”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some indie films confound the viewer with a “What did these actors see in THIS?” connundrum. But not “The Uninvited.” What looks like another onanistic Hollywood-skewers-Hollywood dramedy set in a tony Hollywood Hills party is actually a priorities-questioning, expectations-upending and … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “M3GAN 2.0,” new and improved?

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

The mass murdering doll is redesigned and comes back to emerge s a social media star? Who saw that coming? June 27, the deadly “doll” is back.

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