This family-friendly live action remake of the 1992 Disney animated classic stars a couple of relative unknowns (Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott) as Aladdin and Princess Jasmine, with Will Smith (Men in Black) as the big blue Genie from the magic lamp. Based on the Middle Eastern folktale One Thousand and One Nights, the Genie […]
When a child from an alien world crash lands near a farmhouse outside of tiny Brightburn, Kansas, instead of becoming a Superman-type superhero, he grows up to be something truly sinister, in this alternate reality horror film loosely based on Marvel’s “Supreme Power” comics. The film features a taut, terrifying story and an excellent ensemble […]
Amy and Molly were the nerdy, good girls in high school. They studied, didn’t get into trouble and got into good colleges. But when they find out on the last day of classes that all their more irresponsible, fun-seeking classmates also got into those same good colleges, they decide to make up for four years […]
Christina Applegate stars in this Netflix series as Jen, a widow struggling to keep her family and career together following the recent death of her husband in a hit and run car accident. When well-meaning, free-spirited Judy (Linda Cardellini) befriends her at group therapy, it unleashes a chain of events that grows exponentially more complicated. […]
This sequel to A Dog’s Purpose is the continuing story of Bailey, the dog who had been repeatedly reincarnated over several years before ending back up with his prior owner, Ethan (Dennis Quaid) and his wife Hannah (Marg Helgenberger). When an aging Bailey dies in Ethan’s arms, he resumes his reincarnation spin cycle, this time […]
When detective Harry Goodman goes missing from the live action town of Ryme City, where people and pokémon live together in harmony, his son Tim (Paper Towns‘ Justice Smith) teams up with Harry’s former Pokémon partner, the adorable, wisecracking, coffee-addicted Detective Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds), along with an enterprising journalist-in-training (Blockers‘ Kathryn Newton), and her pokémon, […]
Wine Country is the Amy Poehler-directed Netflix buddy flick about lifelong friends forced to confront their own personal issues when they gather in California’s Napa Valley to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday. It stars a slew of past Saturday Night Live cast members and writers and was inspired by an actual trip the group took […]
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star in this gender flip of 1988’s charming conman comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Hathaway playing Michael Caine’s French Rivera sophisticate role and Wilson taking on Steve Martin’s part as the goofier, more low brow grifter. To say this remake is unfunny is a massive understatement. It is EPICALLY and PROFOUNDLY […]
Oscar winner Diane Keaton stars in this comedy about a woman dying of cancer who decides to pursue her unfulfilled lifelong dream of being a cheerleader by creating a squad at her retirement community. Yes, the premise is hackneyed, the story is super corny and you can see the ending coming a mile away, but […]
When U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) decides to run for President, on a whim, and much to the dismay of her staff, she hires as her speechwriter a newly-unemployed, idealistic, investigative journalist (Seth Rogen) – a man whom she also just happened to babysit when she was a teenager. As the unlikely […]