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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: When a heist goes wrong, better get yourself to “The Refuge”

In the movie business, you can either wait for a break, to be “discovered,” or you make your own. So congratulations for Keith Sutliff for getting his own star vehicle, “The Refuge,” off the ground, in front of the camera … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Brit takes us through the trials of life as a working class “American Woman”

The performances anchoring “American Woman” are some of the finest screen acting we’ll see this year. Sienna Miller and Christina Hendricks play sisters with all the lived-in love and knowing-which-buttons-to-punch of the real thing. Amy Madigan slips into the role … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Trapped in a movie theater? The horrors of “Nightmare Cinema”

The strangers are drawn to the old movie house with Rialto on its marquee. Maybe the title listed up there grabs them — “”Mashit: With Father Benedict Abuelo,” “Dead,” or more invitingly — “Nightmare Cinema.” Each of the five takes … Continue reading →

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Preview, “Emanuel” as endorsed by Steph Curry

Righteous of Curry to put himself out there for this production. He produced the docu-drama about the Charleston church massacre and he’s determined to get people to watch it as well.   The sort of thing Tiger Woods would never … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “The Perfection”

There are more promising — if conventional — directions to take “The Perfection,” a horror tale that twists back on itself so often that the gimmick gives away the game and spoils the fun. Director and co-writer Richard Shepard did … Continue reading →

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Preview, a game you play to save your skin, “Ready or Not”

Samara Weaving stars in this late-August dark comedy, the bride marrying into a family of board game moguls, forced to play this game-of-your-life (crossbows) version of “Hide and Seek,” “Ready or Not” here I come. Oh yeah, this is redband. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Every golfer dreams of the “Round of Your Life”

Richard T. Jones is a marvelous character actor of long standing. You have seen him most recently in TV series, from “Hawaii Five-O” (he was the governor, early on) to “Teachers” and the still-running “The Rookie.” He brings his easy … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”

From the first, Toni Morrison had endure attempts to “ghetto-ize” her fiction, books about the African American experience — from slavery to the trials of African American girl and womanhood, then and now. Even “sympathetic liberal reviews” from the likes … Continue reading →

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“West Side Story” — the first on set cast photo

  Here they are, Spielberg’s dancing miscreants, from Fox.

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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan begin “The Trip To Greece”

Egomaniac and Little Man in a Box are back. Or will be when “”The Trip to Greece” is in the can. What WILL they drive through the birth place of Western Civilization? https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/15/rob-brydon-steve-coogan-back-old-ways-filming-begins-trip-greece-9968922/

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