the @popcollin reviews

Listen up, aspiring screenwriters– if you have a romantic comedy script that the movie studios haven’t optioned yet, it’s probably missing something. Here’s a handy list to make sure you have included everything that the genre (apparently) requires: a slightly dweeb-ish, single leading man a relatively attractive, single, career-driving leading […]

Funny thing about the Paul Rudd/Steve Carell comedy Dinner for Schmucks– it’s not a Rudd/Carell comedy, and it’s not really about a dinner for schmucks. You can call it a Carell-only comedy, I suppose, but even that would be stretching it a bit. Rudd, I bet, had more fun in his […]

When’s the last time you saw 19 names on a movie poster? You’ll be hard-pressed to think of a Hollywood star not featured in Valentine’s Day. The thing is, you’ll also be hard-pressed to get the ol’ adage ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’ out of your head. With each […]

When disgraced former record executive Ian Hawke (David Cross) first makes an appearance in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, he is found living in the basement of the Jett Records building. Subsisting on scraps of trash, he is wearing only a too-short silk robe and flip-flops, and in one […]

Roland Emmerich is apparently suffering from seasonal schizophrenia. On one hand, 2012 is the kind of over-the-top, big-action popcorn flick that is tailor-made for summer. But then there’s so much (attempted) drama, family bonding, and weeping that you’re bound to roll your eyes at least a dozen times. The thing […]