the @popcollin reviews

It may have a decent amount of promise—Shailene Woodley and Jack Whitehall starring, a thought-provoking plot, a script co-written by Ant Hines (‘Borat’)—but nothing in this horrible misfire comes together to become anything even remotely entertaining. A decade in the future, people can buy lifelike robotic versions of themselves, but […]

What could have been a fairly sharp Hollywood satire instead lands with one of the louder thuds heard in recent years. Written and directed by (and also starring) Charlie Day, it’s the story of a mute mental patient who is released from a facility only to somehow land on a […]

A wannabe cringe comedy and societal commentary, this film—about a gaggle of friends at a destination wedding in Mexico who go into upheaval when one accidentally drops another’s infant (don’t worry, she’s fine)—never comes close to getting off the ground. Instead, we’re presented with a weekend in the life of […]

Rob Lowe and Johnny Berchtold star as father and son in this Hallmarky drama about the search for the lost family dog. It’s based on a true story, but you get the sense early on that much of the goings-on have been melodramatized to amp up the…suspense? Even with that, […]

After his wildly successful 2016 ‘self-help’ book, blogger and author Mark Manson brings his mantra of not sweating the small stuff to the big screen. Alas, the worthwhile message gets diluted in the presentation, which is essentially Manson giving a profane Ted Talk while mostly-nonsensical video plays over it. Without […]

The latest from writer-director Damien Chazelle continues to make me wish he had quit after ‘Whiplash’. Sure, ‘First Man’ had its moments, but I’ll never come around on ‘La La Land’, despite the critical acclaim. ‘Babylon’, without a doubt, is the worst of the bunch—a messy and disjointed epic (clocking […]

Ugh. Shame on me for even giving this thing a try. In theory, the premise is okay—a Hollywood director (Jessika Van) finds out that her studio is axing the Christmas film division, so it falls on her assistant (Anissa Borrego) to frame her life as a holiday movie in the […]

Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Aimee Garcia star in this mawkish, Hallmark-y holiday flick that pales in comparison to the similarly plotted ‘Marry Me’ from earlier this year. Garcia is a borderline has-been pop star needing a career boost, so she naturally turns to a small town music teacher to turn […]

Oh my heavens, can DC just stop? Even when not being compared to their vastly superior rivals over at Marvel, the DC Extended Universe has just been one colossal mess after the other, and ‘Black Adam’ may just be the worst of the bunch. A horribly muddled plot, a laughably […]

If ever a movie had a pedigree for success, this one would be right up there… but no. Writer-director David O. Russell gathered Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Zoe Saldana, and tons more for a re-telling of the real-life 1930s conspiracy to remove FDR […]