the @popcollin reviews

Lil Rel Howery tackles what is essentially a one-man show in this sci-fi thriller about an employee who wakes up in a dirt and concrete cell and is made to push his own Sisyphus’ stone around in a circle repeatedly for unknown reasons. What might have actually worked as a […]

Based loosely on the true story of the 1988 heist of the First National Bank of Chicago, this wholly forgettable film had plenty of promise to be sure, but a weak, pedestrian script dooms it pretty much from the get-go. Courtney B. Vance stars as the ringleader, who recruits four […]

This Aussie cheeseball wannabe-Hallmark flick stars pop singer Delta Goodrem alongside Joshua Sasse as a predictably oil-and-water duo who, of course, wind up falling in luuuuv. He’s a big-money British guy sent to shut down her unprofitable mom-and-pop single-plane airline—before, that is, he realizes it’s not all about money; sometimes, […]

The latest interchangeable Liam Neeson action extravaganza finds our hero in a very ‘Speed’-like situation after he gets a phone call that a bomb has been planted in his car, and that it’ll go off unless he keeps driving, and (gasp!) his kids are along for the ride! Sounds like […]

I’m not entirely sure 2021’s ‘Vacation Friends’ was crying out for a sequel, but here we are. Yes, the first outing (a Hulu original) was relatively entertaining, but not so much this lazy and pointless follow-up. Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena, and Meredith Hagner are all back as […]

Clearly someone was looking for a clever way to reverse engineer the title into a full-length movie when they came up with this kinda-clunker. Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin star as bank robbers who show up in town for the wedding of their unknowing daughter (Nina Dobrev) to her doofus […]

The seventh Transformers flick makes it very clear that (A) they should have stopped at six (if not sooner) and (B) Michael Bay did more for this franchise than people may realize. Without Bay’s trademark camerawork and oversaturation to distract you (Steven Caple, Jr. has assumed the reins), this latest […]

Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who wrote ‘A Quiet Place’), this sci-fi flick stars Adam Driver as a man from Somaris who crashes on an alien planet… which turns out to be Earth, 65 million years ago. Despite having a fair amount of potential (man on […]

What could have been a fairly charming and fun movie about a down-on-her-luck Australian woman who gets fired and embarks on a career as a Dolly Parton impersonator instead becomes an almost incoherent mish-mash of nearly every genre going—part comedy, part romance, part drama, and part musical, with a little […]

Nicolas Cage as menacing outlaw Colton Briggs in his first bona fide Western? Sign me up, right? Unfortunately, what we get pales in comparison to what could have been in this low-budget release that would have been direct-to-VHS back in the day. The basic, forgettable script by Carl Lucas and […]