A timid high school teacher (Charlie Day) gets a colleague with rage control issues (Ice Cube) fired on the last day of the school year, prompting the fired teacher to challenge him to an after-school fist fight in the parking lot. The premise is a more ridiculous, much raunchier, expletive-filled knockoff of 1987’s Three O’Clock […]
At first, this Swedish Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, based on Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel, appears to be a predictable story about a crotchety old man repeatedly trying (and failing) to kill himself, following the death of his beloved wife. But when some gregarious new neighbors humorously worm their way into his sullen, […]
This animated musical adventure is based on the goofy little fuzzy haired dolls first made popular in the 1960s. It stars Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake as Poppy and Branch, an unlikely troll duo, one super cheery and the other super grumpy, who team up on a rescue mission after an ogre sporting a fanny […]
After his scene-stealing moments In 2014’s popular The Lego Movie, it was inevitable that Will Arnett’s Batman would be the focus of the inevitable sequel. And like its predecessor, this movie is all about eye-popping visual effects and clever, rapid-fire dialogue that requires the full attention of moviegoers – a challenge, given the movie’s snooze-inducing […]
The premise of this screwball comedy sounds cute enough – Zach Galafianakis and Isla Fisher are a bored, married couple that grow suspicious when a beautiful, worldly, stylish couple (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) move into their sleepy, suburban neighborhood – a couple that turns out to be government spies. These painfully obtuse movies typically […]
This is a promising yet eventually disappointing story about father and son morticians who are asked to perform an autopsy on a body discovered near a gruesome crime scene, who gradually discover that their subject is at the root of something truly sinister. Although buoyed by horror packed with more chills than gore (despite the […]
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest effort stars James McEvoy as a man with dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personalities. When some of his 23 identities decide to kidnap some pretty teenage girls, the horror begins. And like most of Shyamalan’s movies, this one starts with an interesting premise but about halfway through goes off the rails, […]
Strong performances by Sophie Nélisse as young Liesel and Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as her adoptive parents give wings to this otherwise slightly corny adaptation of Marcus Zusak’s popular young adult novel about a family that puts themselves in danger when they secretly shelter a young jew from the Nazis in World War II […]
This is the harrowing, inspirational true story of Neerja Bhanot, the brave, beautiful flight attendant responsible for saving 359 people onboard Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi in 1986 when it was hijacked during her first flight as head purser. Director Ram Madhvani’s well-incorporated details of Bhanot’s earlier life and Sonam Kapoor’s heartfelt performance creates […]
Colorful, well done animation can’t save this exceptionally boring children’s movie about a stork and delivery girl teaming up to deliver a baby who’s accidentally been diverted from her intended new home. Really weak premise aside, this incoherent story feels like it was assembled in separate segments by a dozen different writers with only one […]