A native of rural Virginia, Roger Moore fell in love with movies at his local "Bijou" in the 1970s, and in love with movie reviews by reading Pauline Kael in The New Yorker in his local public library.

He remembers the magic of walking home after seeing "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Jaws," and the thrill of reading Kael as she skewered every Hollywood movie in sight -- every Hollywood movie except "Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan," he notes.

Roger studied journalism at Radford University and started writing reviews for the college radio station, just as Kael did at the beginning of her career.

After spending his first few years after college in TV production and public radio, Roger entered graduate school to study criticism at the University of North Dakota, where he was then working at the university radio station. He also freelanced reviews, profiles, and other stories for the local newspaper, the Grand Forks Herald. By the time he finished graduate school, he was ready to change careers and go into movie criticism and entertainment journalism full time.

Roger has done award-winning work for newspapers in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida, and written for publications as varied as Spin, The World, Xpress, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.

Roger counts days he spent with Gregory Peck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Olympia Dukakis and Leonard Nimoy -- preparing profiles of them -- as the most fun he's had on the job.

Roger has visited many a film set to write feature stories on films in production, movies such as "The Last of the Mohicans" and Paul Newman's "Blaze," and wrote the first articles to run anywhere on Charlize Theron's amazing transformation while she was filming the movie "Monster" in Orlando, Daytona Beach, Port Orange and Kissimmee.

When he's not in a dark theater scribbling notes, Roger can most often be found sailing the Indian River Lagoon or the Atlantic in his sailboat, Orion.