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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 Preview: Band’s music video becomes “found footage” in this creepy “Director’s Cut”

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

And you thought “Found footage” horror was dead. Silly you. This thriller makes its way into public view (streaming) Mar. 18.

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Netfixable? Beware of anything the Germans deem “Delicious”

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Writer-director Nele Mueller-Stöfen’s “Delicious” hides its secrets well. But if you’re observant, the clues pile up long before the thriller’s too-patient build-up drops its big revelations on you. She’s tapping into international inequality in this horrific tale of German “haves” … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” and famous faces fill this series about Making Movies

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Catherine O’Hara and Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Ike Barinholtz and Kathryn Hahn and Zac Efron and Anthony Mackie and Bryan Cranston and Paul Dano and Nicholas Stoller are on the cast list — some have cameos, playing themselves — … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Mickey 17?” “$19.” Bong Joon Ho and RPatts deserve better

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

A robust but hardly dominant Thursday afternoon and evening launches the new Bong Joon Ho sci-fi satire “Mickey 17” to what looks to be a healthy if not remotely “blockbuster” opening weekend. Deadline.com reported that a $2.5 million Thursday folded … Continue reading →

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Series Preview: A rimshot sitcom tailor-made for Nathan Lane — “Mid Century Modern”

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Will & Grace” producers, Linda Lavin as the mother and Nathan Lane as mother hen/mother superior and host to a couple of old friends (Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham) in a gay sitcom for a gay bashing era. This … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: French Fille admits “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

A writer’s sojourn in “The Jane Austen Residency” is sweet, romantic and fun? Or will it be, as the French say, “le hot mess?” “What are you waiting for, Mr. Darcy?” This French flavored Laura Piani play upon “Pride and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: R. Patts is Labor at its Most Disposable — “Mickey 17”

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film is an arch sci-fi parable about the troubled world we live in. An Earth-born colonist/laborer on the distant planet Nilfheim has been recruited by a charismatic but dimwitted poseur/ex-senator/cult-leader whose “propogate the species” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: When Ireland isn’t Enough, “The Problem with People”

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

A couple of top flight character actors — Irish mainstay Colm Meaney and American kvetcher Paul Reiser — pair up for an Irish comedy about family history, inheritance, grudges and cultures clashing in “The Problem with People.” It’s got the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Still a hoot — Mssr. Belmondo’s Holiday — “That Man from Rio (L’homme de Rio)” (1964)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Adrien, dashing from 1960s Rio de Janiero to Brasilia, the then new capital of Brazil, in a pink 1929 Chrysler 75 adored with green stars, pulls over at the first modernist police station he spies. He steps out of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pop Starlet Samara just keeps pushing Nutty Fan’s “love” over the “Borderline”

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Samara Weaving is a Madonna-esque pop superstar stalked by Ray Nicholson in his father Jack’s full “Here’s JOHNNY!” nutjob mode in “Borderline,” a violent and crazed comedy about celebrity and the delusions it feeds to those who have it and … Continue reading →

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