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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: Whatever you do, Don’t Give “Jade” a Blade

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Cool” is the lifeblood of an indie thriller. Park your tale in a novel “cool” setting. Serve up a “cool” heist/scheme/plot, preferably with epic brawls, chases or shootouts. Cast a cool heavy. But even if you ignore or narrowly miss … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Dairy Farm Fails during a Magical Packers Playoff Run — “Green and Gold”

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Green and Gold” is an homage to the “trouble on the farm” movies — “The River,” “Country,” “Places in the Heart” — that were a both a staple of the Reagan/Bush years, and largely a product of Reagan/Bush policies. This … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette” — “The Deluge”

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

As this French Revolution tale stars Melanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, one would hope an American distributor would jump on this title. It’s finished its festival run and is about to hit French cinemas. Sooner or later, North America will … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Bill Murray, Jennifer Coolidge, Gabrielle Union and Pete Davidson — Trigger Happy “Riff Raff”

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Low rent gangsters keep their feuds all in the family? Ed Harris, Emanuela Postacchini and Lewis Pullman also star in this violent farce, which rolls out March 6.

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Movie Preview: “M3GAN 2.0”

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

Nothing like an upgrade, amIright? The horror audience has been mostly AWOL for the past year. “Nosferatu” blew up, but “Presence” and “Companion” are far more indicative of the malaise that has set in with fans of that genre. Tepid … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? A Disabled Child, a Mom Determined to Save Him — “Lucca’s World”

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Roger Moore

A guilt-ridden journalist tries everything, grasping at any “miracle treatments” straw, in an effort to save her disabled-at-birth son in “Lucca’s World,” an engrossing Around the World with Netflix weeper from Mexico. Based on the non-fiction book by Bárbara Anderson, … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy in a Rodeo Love Triangle by Nicholas Ray — “The Lusty Men” (1952)

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Which classic film to watch on a chilly Sunday afternoon often comes down to a coin toss for me. Does the day have a ’40s, ’50s melodrama vibe? That usually means it’s Douglas Sirk or Nicholas Ray time. And if … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: It’s a wedding, and Reese, Celia, Meredith, Geraldine and Will say “You’re Cordially Invited,” Y’all

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Commitment” is a cornerstone of the marriage contract. And it’s damned important in a romantic comedy about marriages as well. Say this for the cast of writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s “You’re Cordially Invited.” These kids — and Will Ferrell and Reese … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “The Sand Castle” is a child’s fantasy of war, loss and displacement

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” film comes from Lebanon, a nation no stranger to strife and conflict like most of the Middle Eastern nation states surrounding her. Lebanon isn’t mentioned by name or treated directly as the subject of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Meet your compliant and cuddly new AI robotic “Companion”

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Companion” is a horrific and caustically cautionary sci-fi thriller about how the digitized alternatives to dating might go wrong. Very wrong. Signing on an impressive cast, writer-director Drew Hancock takes a big, roundhouse swing at “coupling” in a distracted, instant … Continue reading →

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