the @popcollin reviews

Technically, there are still four more months to go in 2011, but I’m going to go out on a (bloody, severed) limb with the bold statement that Shark Night 3D is officially the worst movie of the year. By a lot. Worse than Your Highness. Worse than The Dilemma. Worse […]

It’s not unprecedented. I mean, look— Tom Hanks has Forrest Gump and Philadelphia, but he’s also got The Ladykillers. Even The Godfather himself has The Island of Dr. Moreau on his resume. Bad films happen to good actors. Fresh off two of the most incredible performances of the year, Natalie […]

With Little Fockers, Robert DeNiro has officially jumped the shark. Lest there be any doubt about it, the theme from Jaws plays as he jumps into a ball pit during his grandkids’ birthday party. It really can’t be much more obvious, can it? It’s as if the saps behind this […]

Yogi may be smarter than the average bear, but the filmmakers behind Yogi Bear must think we’re dumber than a stack of bricks. The latest live action/CGI animal flick (think Alvin and the Chipmunks and Marmaduke) has hit theaters just before the end of the year, and it may actually […]

The plot of Faster couldn’t be simpler: Man gets out of jail after ten years and immediately embarks on a five-day murder spree, avenging his brother’s death. It’s tough, it’s brutal, and it’s bloody. It also tries way too hard, is riddled with clichés, and just might make you long […]

Who are you, and what have you done with Peter Morgan? The brilliant writer behind the virtually flawless screenplays for Frost/Nixon and The Queen (both of which were nominated for Oscars) is the scribe behind Hereafter, a plodding meditation on eternity, directed by Clint Eastwood. While much of Morgan’s work […]

If Eat Pray Love teaches us anything, it’s that Rome is perpetually bathed in the soft amber glow of sunset. And that no matter how great (or radiant) Julia Roberts is, she can’t save a 2-1/2 hour meditation on life from being a snoozefest. Based on Liz Gilbert’s best-selling memoir […]

If the old saying is true, and you really are only as good as your last movie, M. Night Shyamalan has been dead in the water for going-on ten years. And The Last Airbender should officially be seen for what it is: one last (and entirely futile) gasp to remain […]

With apologies to the late Lloyd Bentsen, “I watched Lethal Weapon. I loved Lethal Weapon. Lethal Weapon was a good movie. Cop Out, you’re no Lethal Weapon.” For anyone reared on the buddy-cop flick, Cop Out will be nothing less than a major disappointment. Pick any of them —48 Hours, […]