the @popcollin reviews

Speaking of black comedy, how about a documentary from “Cameraperson” director Kirsten Johnson about her elderly dad’s looming decline due to dementia and his ultimate death? It’s a quietly surreal examination of the end of life and coping with loss that will have you laughing, crying, scratching your head, and […]

Eye-opening and harrowing documentary about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the cover-up/blind eye that followed. Sickening but important and timely stuff. 4/5 stars

Super-fun twist on Sherlock Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown leading the way as Sherlock’s sister, who is trying to solve a case of her own. Clever, witty, and sharp—one of Netflix’s better streaming features recently. 4/5 stars  

This moody and deliberate exercise in introspection about a damaged, self-destructive American woman teaching English in Tokyo could have easily spiraled into a tropey, “9½ Weeks”-ish flop, but the outstanding performance from Alexandra Daddario and a restrained script from Catherine Hanrahan (from her own book) keep it afloat enough to […]

It’s quite conceivable that Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson), the shoo-in valedictorian at her Missouri high school, has never failed a test in her life. When we meet her, however, in the opening frames of the HBO Max original Unpregnant, she’s not getting the result she wanted on a very different kind […]

Three years ago, the Netflix horror-comedy The Babysitter came out of nowhere to become a fun little diversion during the Halloween season (and a better-than-expected success for the streaming platform). And though the door was left wide open for a sequel, it took almost two years for production to get underway on The […]

Fairly decent zombie flick from South Korea. Nothing you haven’t seen before, but the two-people-against-the-world idea is effective and fairly interesting. 3/5 stars