Movie Reviews

Universal makes it very clear in their new CGI opening that The Mummy is the first picture in the Dark Universe, a franchise that will showcase all their classic movie monsters for the 21st century. Their first entry is perhaps the trickiest. How do you sell a mummy as a terrifying monster? Even when overlooking the cartoonish mutations of a bandaged …

The Hero poses the very real and depressing question about the iconic Sam Elliott: What if he died? Would he be remembered as a great actor or only be known as the cowboy with the mustache that took comfort in the dude’s abide? Would his last role be that of another cowboy, wearing the same hat and same clothing that …

The best horror is the type that gets under your skin and leaves you feeling uneasy and uncertain for what may transpire on screen. It Comes at Night burrows itself deep into the scariest depths of our minds, placing the viewer in a tough situation with no easy answers. What’s most scary is the inhuman nature of distrust and survival …

With a title like Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, fart jokes come standard. Why wouldn’t they? You can’t make an animated film about a superhero that literally runs around in his underwear and not have a single reference to the bodily functions of a gluteus maximus. And, yes, there are plenty of farts present to make every child smirk …

After the uneven and garish tones of Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to the first attempt at a Wonder Woman movie, especially after the dismally unfocused failure of a modern TV pilot. But I guess once you’ve crucified Superman and turned the Joker into a Juggalo, there’s nowhere to go but up (I hoped). …

The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie has all the disappointment of hopping back on your favorite amusement park ride after decades. The paint is chipped, the metal is rusty and there’s a faint noise in the gears struggling to keep the ride going. It’s just not fun anymore. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has seen better days as …

Baywatch is back! Read our movie review to see how the new movie holds up to the TV show: Baywatch offers one knowing joke that bangs its head against the wall until all the brains spill out from the damage. A handful of characters comment on how farfetched, inappropriate, surreal and dangerous it is for lifeguards to be involved with solving …

“I love you.” “I loved you before I met you.” -Actual dialogue from Everything, Everything The two teenage leads of this typical Bubble Boy drama could make a great couple if only they had a script. J. Mills Goodloe’s screenplay, based on the best-selling novel by Nicola Yoon, gives them plenty to do, but nothing to say. Here are two …

As the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which was itself a prequel to Scott’s Alien, Alien: Covenant finally brings the familiar xenomorph monsters back to the big screen, but also with plenty of new ideas. In an age where most remakes and reboots tends to bank hard on nostalgia, Scott’s latest Alien picture attempts to do more than just present the …

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is such a foul miscalculation of kid-friendly entertainment that it begins with a warning. The Heffley family enters into a family-fun restaurant packed with screaming babies, disgusting food, filthy playground equipment and dirty diapers flung everywhere from plates to ball pits. This is a world where the unlucky boy Greg Heffley (Jason …