the @popcollin reviews

Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg join forces as super-secret special-ops agents for this wannabe ‘Mission: Impossible’-style action thriller that falls flatter than the proverbial pancake from pretty much the word ‘go’. The stakes are high (though we’d never know it from the universal lack of urgency), and we’re told that […]

If I could just drop my head in my hands and walk away, I would. Even grading on the curve of this being a silly little Hallmark-y Netflix original, it’s easily among the most pointless and utterly vapid of its ilk in years. Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt star as […]

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?? This patently unfunny and downright ridiculous effort from Jerry Seinfeld has all the trappings of being at least somewhat watchable (the race to get toaster pastries to market certainly hasn’t had its day in the sun yet, and […]

A down-on-his-luck guy (Paapa Essiedu) stumbles on a genie (Melissa McCarthy) in a magic jewelry box, and this cute little holiday flick is off and running. Though it relies more than it should on all the good ol’ holiday tropes, there’s still enough here for it to be a decent […]

The age-old tale of Santa Claus presenting himself to mere mortals, and the mortals grappling with whether this weirdo actually is St. Nick gets yet another retelling in this yawner of a holiday flick. Lil Rel Howery stars as the big guy, while Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges must eventually come around […]

It’s not even Thanksgiving, and of course Netflix is already rolling out the Santa-stuffed fare. Let’s just hope it gets better from here. Heather Graham and Jason Biggs star as Charlotte and Rob, a quintessentially bland middle-class couple who wind up spending the holidays with one of Charlotte’s friends (Brandy)—the […]

Based on the recent video game series, this horror film (in theory, anyway) is designed to bring all our deep-seated childhood fears of animatronic animals to life. What we end up getting, though, is a beyond-sluggish snoozer that meanders all over the place before fizzling out with a whimper. Josh […]

If you haven’t had your fill of tired and lazy boomer jokes lately, this Netflix original should be right up your alley. Written and directed by and starring comedian Bill Burr alongside Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine, it’s a non-stop softball rant about the Gen X/Gen Z divide, stuffed with […]

Oh my word, what happened HERE?! Gal Gadot stars in this woefully uninspired action flick as a secret agent assigned to keep a new-fangled AI system out of the hands of the bad guys. Director Tom Harper, who gave us 2019’s fairly entertaining ‘The Aeronauts’ has fallen flat on his […]

You would think a movie about giant terrorizing sea monsters would prominently feature giant, terrorizing sea monsters. Not so much, with this forgettable sequel to the also-forgettable 2018 original. Jason Statham is back as noble ocean-guy Jonas Taylor, helping explore the depths in the name of science. Yes, the big […]