the @popcollin reviews

What might have been a reasonably hard-hitting, revelatory, and nostalgic documentary about the band most of the world only knows for ‘Take on Me’ instead leaves more questions than answers. Watershed moments are glossed over, and minor squabbles are never fully explored. It’s almost as if directors Thomas Robsahm and […]

The feature film writing/directorial debut for Mayim Bialik, this bittersweet tale of a young woman (Dianna Agron) coping with the imminent death of her father (Dustin Hoffman) is a powerful, if somewhat uneven, tale of family and dysfunction and coping. Candice Bergen and Simon Helberg co-star, rounding out a fairly […]

Michael Bay’s latest big-boom-bang is set over the course of a day in Los Angeles, as a local criminal (Jake Gyllenhaal) leads a bank heist that goes south very quickly. Considering who’s at the helm of this thing, the movie is surprisingly restrained, instead leaning on the characters and the […]

I’m not sure the world’s population was beating down any doors demanding a sequel to the 2020 original, and the filmmakers, it seems, fed on that general apathy. The result is a largely boring, often head-scratching exercise in what-am-I-watchingness. Sure, you can stick your kids in front of it and […]

This comedy of errors about a film production (of the super-cheesy ‘Cliff Beasts 6’) during the early days of the COVID lockdown is heavy on the errors and unfortunately light on the comedy. Written and directed by Judd Apatow, the film does have intermittent spots of fresh, hit-your-mark laughs, but […]

Sit down, strap in, and brace yourself for an acid-trip thrill ride like you’ve never seen before. Written and directed by Daniels (Kwan and Scheinert), the film defies explanation or description—so let’s just go with… “Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) discovers she has superpowers and ventures into a multi-verse to battle evil.” […]

If you’ve had a weird longing for a remake of 1984’s “Romancing the Stone”, you’re in luck. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum star as regular folk thrust into the tropical jungle on a hunt for treasure, while Daniel Radcliffe pulls the strings. It’s fun and goofy and has plenty of […]

Based on the true story of a miraculous 2010 Mount Washington rescue, the film stars Naomi Watts as a search and rescue volunteer who, even while battling her own demons, somehow trudges up (and back down) 6,000 feet to lead a man to safety. But that’s only part of the […]