the @popcollin reviews

Even in a world where last November’s outstanding (and identically-plotted) Widowsdidn’t exist, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to justify the existence of a mess like writer-director Andrea Berloff’s lame, blood-soaked The Kitchen. Based on the 2014 DC comic series (though played as a serious “based on a true story” biopic), The […]

At one point in Dumbo—Disney’s ill-advised live-action remake of its own 1941 classic—a potential circus investor turns to a colleague and exclaims, “Wow, what a disaster!” As tempting as it is to end this review right there, I’ll soldier on. Going into Dumbo, as you see Tim Burton’s name on the poster […]

Either Rupert Wyatt has zero faith in humanity, or he’s a prisoner of his own imagination. Or both. Eight years after his Rise of the Planet of the Apes rebooted the decades-old simian overlord franchise, he’s once again depicting the demise of the rule of humans, only this time it’s courtesy of […]

We’re not even a full month into 2019 yet, and already we have the runaway contender for worst movie of the year. Truly, it will take a calamitous motion picture event to knock Serenity from its perch, and that’s not likely since the majority of the movie’s failure lies with the obscenely […]

Oh, for want of a magic spell that could somehow fast-forward us to the end of J.K. Rowling’s planned five-movie (yes, five) Fantastic Beasts saga. Watching the second episode, The Crimes of Grindelwald, with the knowledge that we’re not even half-way through and that there are no companion tomes (save for the pithy […]

If there ever was a no-brainer in the history of cinema, it would be a Disney-fied version of The Nutcracker at the outset of the holiday season, with ballet goddess Misty Copeland appearing alongside Helen Mirren, Kiera Knightley, and Morgan Freeman. There’s no way the folks at Disney could mess […]

In a world where humans and puppets live side by side, where humans are derided as “fleshies”, and puppets are pariahs, and where puppets are buried by a priest who says, “Ashes to ashes, fluff to fluff”—that’s the world of The Happytime Murders, the first-ever production from the new Henson Alternative […]

Just when you think the summer movie season is beginning to redeem itself (thank you, Baby Driver and The Beguiled), along comes one of the truly worst movies. No, not one of the worst movies of the summer…one of the worst of all time. The House is precisely that awful. In what may be the most […]

The 2017 reboot of The Mummy is supposed to triumphantly launch Universal’s new Dark Universe franchise, which currently has ten films on the slate, including Bride of Frankenstein, a new Creature from the Black Lagoon film, and yet another re-do of Dracula. The only thing The Mummy is launching, though, is a frazzled scurry back to the drawing […]

Just two months after a silly remake of a campy TV show hit theaters, we barely have time to blink before we get another. Unfortunately, as with CHIPS, the modern-day re-telling of Baywatch flounders miserably. There’s not a lifeguard anywhere who could drag this thing to shore and breathe some […]