Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Yanking its two titular ensemble players out of the Furious fray and into their own reluctant-brothers-in-bickering-arms project, Hobbs & Shaw might just be the perfect summer blockbuster: it’s got high-octane
Last Christmas (2019)
Blessed with two fabulous leads – who have stellar chemistry with each other – and a screenplay co-penned by Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, Last Christmas is a movie made for people
Gemini Man (2019)
For a movie with so much talent in front of and behind the camera, it is hard to not get frustrated when you see potential for an exciting sci-fi action
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I'm happy to report that it's just as much fun 35 years after its release as it was when it
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I remember being insanely excited when they announced the release of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, but when I finally saw it, my reaction was decidedly "meh". It simply didn't
The Expendables
The names on the movie poster should make any action-movie fan drool: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Li, Lundgren, Statham, Rourke, and on, and on. My god, ALL these ass-kickers in one
Pompeii (2014)
Cheeseball disaster flicks are a category unto themselves. They are all about spectacle and special effects: Volcanoes go boom! Meteors hit major landmarks! The earth opens up and swallows entire
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
As we all know, there has been a barrage (quite literally... SLAM! BANG! POW!) of superhero movies lately. Audiences can't seem to get enough, even to the point of revisiting
Gladiator (2000)
This is an Epic with a capital "E", that's for sure. Swords, and tigers, and blood, oh my! Actually, a lot of blood. Muddy armies hacking each other to bits
Beware the Batman: Shadows of Gotham – Season 1 Part 1 (2014)
I've always been puzzled about the intended audience of comic book cartoon shows. I mean, they're animated and usually air when and where kids can find them, but they're often
Inherent Vice
Joaquin Phoenix, with his weirdo-chameleon persona in the media (remember when he grew a beard and said he was quitting acting to become a rapper?), is, at the very least,
Elsa & Fred (2014)
There aren't a lot of sweet movies these days, and by "sweet" I don't mean sentimental or family friendly. I mean nice movies about regular folks. Elsa and Fred is
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
A gaggle of estranged adult siblings return home when the patriarch of the family passes away. Sibling heckling occurs, secrets are revealed, and they've all just maybe grown up a
The Skeleton Twins
Former Saturday Night Live co-stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader build on their existing friendship and professional history to co-star as dysfunctional twins Maggie and Milo, and the result is
Wild Hogs
Strangely enough, though, I didn’t find it nearly as painful or tragically mangled as either of its aforementioned predecessors on my screening schedule. Comparatively speaking, it wasn’t terrible. Oh, it’s
All the King’s Men (2006)
He’s like an angry little Tazmanian devil, whirling about, arms flailing, screaming at everyone and destroying everything in his path. Halfway through the movie, during one of his explosive rants,
Ronin (1998)
In historic Japan, "ronin" were samurai who had lost or been betrayed by their masters—warriors that were renegade swords-for-hire. With that in mind, we are introduced to a handful of
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Lying dead on the screen and lacking momentum almost entirely, the movie version of The Da Vinci Code takes what should be a suspense-filled treasure hunt and turns it into
Down in the Valley (2005)
That’s good. I like that kind of thing. But it’s also one of those movies that falls apart in its final 30 minutes or so, dragging out its action and
Munich (2005)
Though Steven Spielberg's established his career with a series of great popcorn flicks (like Close Encounters, Jaws, and E.T.), but these days it seems he sleepwalks through his films unless
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has stood the test of time for many reasons. Not only is it widely agreed to be the best of the big-screen Star
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Chronicling, as the title makes clear, the “origins” of Logan/Wolverine and his long-standing love/hate relationship with his increasingly ferocious brother, Victor “Sabretooth” Creed (Liev Schreiber), the film covers all the
Blindness (2008)
Blindness' "What if?" scenario is along the lines of such sci-fi/horror stories as Children of Men, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, or 28 Days Later. Something happens beyond everyone's control, sending humanity
Iron Man (2008)
I give Robert Downey, Jr. full credit for being the reason that I found Iron Man to be enjoyable. What is essentially an origin story for the latest Marvel superhero
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete First Season (2008)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is set in the time between Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Season One opens in 1999, when Sarah (Lena Headey)
Unbreakable (2000)
When was the last time you were sick? When was the last time you had an injury? Well… to most of us, we should be able to answer these questions
X-Men (2000)
I grew up stealing peeks at my dad's old X-Men comics, those glory-days of the 1960's, long before Wolverine came on the scene. In high school, I suppose I became
Just Mercy (2019)
Though Just Mercy is a relatively by-the-book procedural, it is actually better than its trailer suggests, portraying a solemn lawyer promising justice for an unjustly imprisoned death row inmate. With
1917 (2019)
1917 is effectively a feature length stunt. As the camera follows two young British World War I soldiers from their camp to the trenches to trudging across a field to
Spies in Disguise (2019)
To backtrack: Lance is considered the world’s greatest spy. He can extricate himself from any situation with skill, finesse and borderline-superhuman athleticism, and he’s revered by his colleagues at the
Lucy in the Sky (2019)
Natalie Portman sports the aforementioned tragic fake hair to star as Lucy Cola, a chronic overachiever, Type-A personality and NASA astronaut who’s just returned from her latest mission and is
Cats (2019)
You remember that trailer, right? The one that instantly set the Internet a’blaze with gasps of horror, hilarious memes and near-unanimous “what were they THINKING?!?!”s as the world caught its
