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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

Next Screening? “The Sun is Also a Star”

This one-day romance, with an anti-“wall” American melting pot subtext, opens Friday. Looks sweet. Or bittersweet. Depending on how it breaks. “The Sun is Also a Star” opens Thursday night.

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Movie Review: Fiennes remembers the glory that was Nureyev in “The White Crow”

“The White Crow” is director Ralph Fiennes and screenwriter David Hare‘s stately and stolid screen biography of the great Soviet ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev, zeroing in on events that led to his defection to the West in 1961. It captures … Continue reading →

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Ask John Cusack anything about ‘Say Anything’ in Fort Lauderdale

This is an interesting tour, and I guess Cusack is of an age when it is appropriate. Show one of your best films, do a q & a afterwards, a victory lap for a beloved actor interacting with his fans. … Continue reading →

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Werner Herzog to Receive Lifetime Honor From European Film Academy

He should be collecting these on a weekly basis. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/werner-herzog-receive-lifetime-honor-european-film-academy-1209983

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Preview: There’s no escaping “Clownado!”

Weirdest trailer I have posted this year, and may it remain the weirdest all the way through Dec. 31. C’mon. Who’s afraid of clowns?

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Documentary Review: More Moe Berg is served up in “The Spy Behind Home Plate”

Did you see the game but not great big screen biography, “The Catcher was a Spy,” starring Paul Rudd as the mysterious baseball player turned pre-CIA agent Moe Berg last year? Well, here’s another chance — one among MANY — … Continue reading →

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Bond 25 returns 007 to his birthplace, Jamaica

    This past couple of weeks’ press events and production stills of Daniel Craig getting back into the James Bond saddle for location shots have gotten me thinking about the long history of the franchise and why the 25th … Continue reading →

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Movie Theater Traumatizes Children by Accidentally Playing ‘La Llorona’ Instead of ‘Detective Pikachu’

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/movie-theater-plays-la-llorona-detective-pikachu-1202139835/amp/

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Preview: Sienna Miller is “American Woman,” even though she’s British

Roadside Attractions has this June 14 release, with Sienna Miller playing a mother of two struggling to carry on after one of her children goes missing. Aaron Paul and Christina Hendricks also star in “American Woman,” not to be confused … Continue reading →

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A movie that doesn’t exist –the 2018 remake of “The Man from Bitter Ridge”

A point I have made here from time to time, if your movie isn’t on IMDb or Rottentomatoes or Metacritic, it does not exist. Here is one with Ed Harris and Jason Isaac and Stephen Root and others, a remake … Continue reading →

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